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In any case, if you ignore this notification it automatically allows the action after 15 seconds. Given that it popped up similar notifications for the same actions by valid programs, I always allowed those. In a number of cases, Anvi popped up notification of a 'dangerous action,' and asked whether to allow it.

Anvi's real-time protection whacked a paltry 37 percent, leaving me with the task of launching all the rest and noting how Anvi reacted. I carefully kept an eye on it and clicked Delete every time.Īll of the other products tested with this malware collection have wiped out over 70 percent of the samples right away SecureIT got 87 percent. Unless you, the eagle-eyed user, click the Delete button within 15 seconds the warning popup vanishes and the antivirus takes no action. Like many antivirus products, Anvi started wiping out those it recognized. Next I opened up a folder containing already-downloaded instances of my malware samples.

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But SecureIT blocked 89 percent of those, and ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall (free, 3.5 stars) blocked 83 percent. It did manage to quarantine a quarter of the threats after download. Of those still functional, Anvi didn't block any at the URL level. Of course some URLs are no good now, the cyber-crooks having moved on.

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I started off by trying to download my current collection again, checking whether Anvi would block the malware-hosting URLs or at least block the downloaded files. Its malware blocking score of 4.8 points is lower than that of any product tested with either my current collection of samples or the previous collection. SecureIT, for example, boasts the highest malware blocking score among products tested with my current malware collection – 9.7 points! Anvi is consistently terrible. Some products are vastly better at real-time protection than at cleanup. Terrible Malware Blocking In general, it's easier for an antivirus to prevent installation of malware on a clean system than to root out all the traces after malware has gotten a foothold. For a detailed explanation on how I go about testing and rating malware removal, see How We Test Malware Removal.Īnvi Smart Defender malware removal chart Its record low score of zero for rootkit removal won't be undercut, ever. Anvi undercut that, for a new record low of 2.9 points. SecureIT ($1.95/month direct for three licenses, 3 stars) recently set a new low for malware cleanup score, 3.6 points. Of those it did detect, it left behind executable files for 86 percent, and for half of those threats at least one executable file was still running after Anvi's supposed removal. It completely missed 40 percent of the threats. Terrible Malware Cleanup Anvi's malware removal results on the other eleven test systems were so bad that it hardly mattered whether or not it got a chance to scan the one problem system. In the end I gave them a break and simply omitted results from that system rather than recording a miss for each threat present. Tech support supplied an updated installer, which manifested the same problem. Anvi installed in Safe Mode but wouldn't run. Ransomware on this system totally takes over Windows's operations, so it can only run in Safe Mode. However, another system gave Anvi more grief. On another system the display went wonky here, too, a reboot solved the problem. One test system crashed with a blue screen of death during scanning, but after a reboot it completed the scan process just fine.

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