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Offline polonus

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is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« on: January 02, 2014, 07:01:12 PM »
My dear forum friends,

Anyone something on herdProtect scanner. Scans with 68 scanners, Can it be used as a second op scanner next to avast residential av?
http://www.herdprotect.com/index.aspx

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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2014, 07:08:07 PM »
Heres a list of the engines: http://www.herdprotect.com/engines.aspx

Huge amount of them. :D

The interface is simple and clean. (Screenshot)

The VM im using has no AV on it and is still infected by that Comprovante and avcheck malware. ;)

During the scan it shows the amount of files scanned in a graph, or maybe its showing something else there.

There is some interesting information in their Knowledgebase: http://www.herdprotect.com/knowledgebase.aspx

And there is the comprovante.exe listed which is running in memory at the moment caused by the avcheck file: http://www.herdprotect.com/comprovante.exe-20bf57abe89650fdab9f2611428f90e4f2c53632.aspx

Screenshot with the results is attached.
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2014, 07:42:18 PM »
Quote from: polonus on January 02, 2014, 07:01:12 PM
My dear forum friends,

Anyone something on herdProtect scanner. Scans with 68 scanners, Can it be used as a second op scanner next to avast residential av?
http://www.herdprotect.com/index.aspx

polonus

Looks like yes.
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Best of all, like all herdProtect products, the scanner is a second line of defense and is designed to work perfectly with your existing antivirus software.

I'm testing it now, thanks for the link, D. The principle reminds me of Comodo DACS, which was abandoned for potential legal reasons.
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2014, 08:58:51 PM »
Thank Damien,
A nice addition to the arsenal. :)
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2014, 09:38:16 PM »
I'm a little confused, maybe it's my medication, is this safe to have next to both avast and MBAM Pro?  ???

If it's safe I'll add it to my, as Bob put it, arsenal.
I like layered protection.  :)
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2014, 10:11:54 PM »
It works perfectly with Comodo full suite except for many false positive detections from the lesser known AV's (normal for that many scanners, I suppose). S/A I'm gonna install it on a system with Avast (latest version) next.
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2014, 10:32:06 PM »
Downloaded the set up file, but cannot make it work on dial-up connection in Vista.
It closed down in windows with an error.
error report: Fault bucket 4071759553, type 5
Name of occurence: CLR20r3
Reply: No
Id van CAB-bestand: 0

Signature of problem:
P1: herdprotectscan.exe
P2: 1.0.0.0
P3: 52b47028
P4: herdProtectScan
P5: 1.0.0.0
P6: 52b47028
P7: 134
P8: 0
P9: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
P10:

Included files:
C:\Users\polonus\AppData\Local\Temp\WER7FA3.tmp.version.txt

These files maybe available from:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Report1fefa9bf

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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2014, 10:47:40 PM »
Hi polonus,

Could you analyze the minidump? I'm scanning a Vista SP2 with Avast on a 20 Mbps shared network connection right now without issue. I don't think herdprotect will work well on dial up because of the amount of data that has to be transferred, but it shouldn't crash Windows, either.
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2014, 10:53:27 PM »
The error may have come with a problem usually meaning that Microsoft .NET Framework installation is either damaged or corrupted.
Uninstall the current installation of Microsoft .NET Framework
Clean the registry using a good quality registry cleaner to remove any invalid .Net Framework entries in the Windows registry
Download and install the most recent version of Microsoft .NET Framework
Restart your computer - gonna try that,

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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2014, 11:03:48 PM »
Sounds like a plan!  ;)

Meanwhile, my scan on Vista has completed. Many fewer FP's than on XP.
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2014, 12:23:24 AM »
I think my install problem is because I am behind a dongle proxy - Microsoft Fix It Center does not run at it either and home on cable I am fine.

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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2014, 08:00:54 AM »
Read on their site that there is a portable version available, however I havent seen anything of it while browsing it.

Edit: Nevermind, looks like it should be available sometime later this year.
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2015, 07:12:54 PM »
I used this for the first time, today. It did find some malware tucked away and removed it. I was quite impressed. I have since tried to do a bit of research and when I clicked on the manufacturers' website:

    Reason Software Company Inc.
     
    builtwithreason.com/

WOT flagged up a RED warning, so I am now not so convinced.
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« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2015, 07:27:30 PM »
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Re: is this a reliable second op in the cloud scanner?
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2015, 07:46:19 PM »
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