Maybe, bbfi, you refer to this post of Andreas Haak (Site Admin)
Integration of certain AV programs
Hi,
well, I will let you know about some ideas we can discuss and that will maybe be a way of a powerfull cooperation.
As you all know a² has a pluginable engine. It would be possible to plug in third party engines, too. I simply have to add a "wrapper" that translates the a² flags and commands to the vendor specific ones. This is a big advantage ...
I thought about an integration of already installed AV software. That means:
If you have NOD32 installed a² offers you integrate the NOD32 engine into the a² engine. So everytime a² scans a file its automatically scanned by NOD32, too.
This adds more security and helps to make security easy. You only have to activate the scan plugins and you have one common interface to all your installed software that is supported. There are some more benefits:
1. You don't have to learn several products. You just have to learn how to use a². If you want to change your virus scanner a² will only load an other plugin. Thats it.
2. You only have to run one guard, so you won't loose any wasted resources. The guard is able to "remember" what files were scanned and is able to allow much more fine tuning than most other guards. You can say: "Well, scan the file only if its executed and not every time its accessed" etc. . This will help to increase performance and stability.
3. A² and its guard are much better protected than every other AV software. Its simply impossible to terminate or manipulate settings or processes that a² uses while its loaded. So you don''t have to fear any internet worm or backdoor that trys to kill your primary line of defense.
Of course the direct integration of the already installed engines is not neccessary. You can say what engine a² hsould use. It won't force you. You can of course use a² and your favorite av program without the integration. and without limitations. I think I said it several times above:
A² is designed as a perfect second line of defense and as an addition that is compatible to as any software as possible.
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I'll take a look. Anyway, there isn´t a plugin for avast! right now.
