UnThreat Antivirus Free

[Anupam]

Originally Posted by bhtani

This may be off topic (sry!) can anyone tell me how is bufferzone pro(freeware)? I see a Black screen after installation and restart.

Please post in a different thread. Sorry.

[MidnightCowboy]

Originally Posted by J_L

Real system had BSOD problems at logon after installing this, oh well. Back to recent drive image for me.

Have installed/uninstalled several times (Windows 7 x32) and no issues at all. Also installed the trial to check out the differences and then back to the free version with no problems. This was a clean install of Windows though with no other AV present before so maybe this is relevant.

[J_L]

True, on a clean virtual machine I had no problems. Some say it's because of Comodo, but who knows.

[MidnightCowboy]

Originally Posted by J_L

True, on a clean virtual machine I had no problems. Some say it's because of Comodo, but who knows.

This is more than likely. I remember confliction issues with [the former] Sunbelt firewall on systems where Comodo had been installed previously, and as I understand it, the UT firewall driver is included with UT Free even though the firewall [they use Sunbelt/GFI] is only available in the commercial version.

[bhtani]

@anupam, what i meant that I think Unthreat and buffrezone pro has incompatibility issues. and was wondering if anyone else has it.

neways can ane1 tell me why the update of Unthreat is always the size of 80MB and the uppdate notification tells me that update is running for the first time. Even though in the main program it said "last update was 3 hours ago"..

[Anupam]

Originally Posted by bhtani

@anupam, what i meant that I think Unthreat and buffrezone pro has incompatibility issues. and was wondering if anyone else has it.

Its a request then, please be specific with what you post, otherwise it can create confusion.

Originally Posted by bhtani

neways can ane1 tell me why the update of Unthreat is always the size of 80MB and the uppdate notification tells me that update is running for the first time. Even though in the main program it said "last update was 3 hours ago"..

I faced the same too, and wondered about it. Have no answer for that yet.

[MidnightCowboy]

Are we talking about a new install here? If so, then the last update registered in their system could well have been three hours ago, but it is still necessary to download the full signature database from scratch, hence the large size.

Please give more information if I've misunderstood what is being asked here.

[Anupam]

Yes, you are right.. we are talking about a fresh install of UnThreat. I had the same thing too, and I had written about it.

It was more strange for me, because that amount of update occurred after two days of installing and running UnThreat... and it said that it was performing update for the first time. Well, if it was the first time, and it was a large signature base, what was it doing for the two days?

[MidnightCowboy]

Like all AV programs it needs to download a signature database to work with. Some require the whole database from time zero and others include some historical signatures and then just add the updates. Whatever, unless a main component is being upgraded at some point, this first download is the largest you're likely to see. I remember CAV used to be 125+MB at one point. My guess is that something interfered with the programs original attempt to contact out and so your database did not get downloaded until after a later contact to their server was successful.

[Anupam]

Well yea, I understand that a signature based AV will of course require to install the definitions.

But here, I am saying about the lack of information, or misinformation being provided. Nothing is clear.

First, when you hover the mouse over the tray icon, it would say that it updated the definition so and so much time ago. I don't recall the exact message, as I am not using the hard disk on which I have it installed, but it's something along the above lines.

So, after I had installed UnThreat, and as bhtani also says, it shows message like above. So, I thought it updated in the background. I was really quite surprised, when suddenly two days after its installation, and running, I find it downloading big stuff of 75 MB, and saying that its getting updated the first time.

Its an unclear message... we don't know if the definitions are getting updated, or the program itself is getting updated.

Also, in the options, the option to show notifications about updates etc, is checked, but I never saw any notification.

Since the two days it was installed, it should have checked for definitions... my computer is always connected to internet, once its booted up. So, its quite a security lapse in my opinion, that the updates were not downloaded in those two days. Either it should download updates immediately, or soon atleast, or .. just not show false tray messages.

These are some dicy-dicy things about the program, which they should change.