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 #1167  by wealllbe20
 Thu May 27, 2010 7:12 pm
As you should know, prevx is an AV product.

Let's take a look at the post the prevx moderator wrote.

hxxp://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=272116

"The scanner on VirusTotal does not have anywhere of a fraction of the detection of the Prevx engine."

Is this a translation error saying that the prevx scanner on virustotal does not correctly show the detection rate of prevx?

or that prevx can beat the (virustotal scanner huh?) ?

Let's hear what you guys have to say.
 #1169  by Brookit
 Thu May 27, 2010 8:08 pm
The Virustotal system provides AV products which only scan by their respective signatures/heuristics.
So proactive defence/memory scan is disregarded.

So I believe what he just wants to say is the main power in PrevX product lies in proactive/memory scan.
Correct me if I am wrong!
 #1171  by EP_X0FF
 Fri May 28, 2010 7:09 am
wealllbe20 wrote:As you should know, prevx is an AV product.

Let's take a look at the post the prevx moderator wrote.

hxxp://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=272116

"The scanner on VirusTotal does not have anywhere of a fraction of the detection of the Prevx engine."

Is this a translation error saying that the prevx scanner on virustotal does not correctly show the detection rate of prevx?

or that prevx can beat the (virustotal scanner huh?) ?

Let's hear what you guys have to say.
This is also correct for some others AV's at VT like Kaspersky for example. Detection also depends on engine options.
So any VT results are not 100% trustworthy and cannot be taken seriously in any kind of tests. For getting real results required testlab.