Comments on: Rising Antivirus Review

By: amit johar

amit johar — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:06:29 +0000

you need to have patience my friend. I have ashampoo anti-malware and it takes 17 hours to scan whole computer while AVG internet seurity takes 2 hours. But ashampoo anti-malware has over 98% detection rate. 5% in 20 minutes is very good. Less than 7 hours it means. not 17 hours like mine

By: Fox-1

Fox-1 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:38:57 +0000

I’m using an old system to do my network things (mail-/ftp-server/torrents/ICQ/etc.) and this thing still uses Windows 2000. Most of todays antivirus software requires at least a Windows XP install so not much choice.

Today I tried Rising Antivirus. Well, I guess you’ll get what you pay for, which in this case was ZERO!

Incredible slow download and only the installer already takes up 100MB.

I don’t know how good it performs as it won’t even install if you don’t have a recent version of Internet Explorer installed!

Since I’m a FireFox user I removed IE completely. At installing Rising Antivirus I got a message saying “Your version of Internet Explorer is too old. Update to version 6.0 or newer”.

WTF! First, it can’t be too old as there is none! Next, the fact I removed IE has a reason and no way I’m going to install it for a f***ing free virus-scanner. They also didn’t even bother to mention it in the requirements.

I’m glad it was free so I can wipe it at no cost from my HD as quickly as possible. Total waste of bandwidth.

By: Carbonize

Carbonize — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 06:51:48 +0000

1 – You mean AVG not AGV
2 – My review is from 2009 and I have been informed it has changed a lot since then but I will reserve judgement until I get bored enough to try it again.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:44:46 +0000

I have been using Rising for over three years, and cannot find a better free or paid AV so far. AGV allowed more viruses on my computer than any I have ever used, and I only go to a few regular site, and news sites. Even Norton did better than. AGV is a totally dangerous AV to use. You are the only site I have seen that has a negative experience to Rising, so that does not do much for you. And their fire wall is equally as effective.

By: Carbonize

Carbonize — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:10:31 +0000

Yes but Panda also had a high rate of false positives.

By: Deekshith

Deekshith — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:12:19 +0000

Even PandaCloud antivirus is fine. It stands second in detection rates, next to G-Data in the test by AV-Comparatives.

( http://www.av-comparatives.org/en/comparativesreviews/detection-test )

By: Bobbi Daugherty

Bobbi Daugherty — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:19:11 +0000

thanks

By: Tonttu

Tonttu — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:51:58 +0000

Switched from PC TOOLS AV7 to RISING 2010 AV and I’m not regretting it a bit.
Imho,this is the BEST AV around,and FREE!
Very light on resources.

By: Axel

Axel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:19:47 +0000

I’ve been using Rising for more than two years by now, and I really can’t complain: I haven’t had any virus in that time highjacking my PC. Of course I don’t trust the autodetection mechanism, but scan all downloaded files and freshly inserted flash memory drives manually.

And as Randy Lee says, it’s the only free AntiVirus to run on a Server system. I use a server OS on my PCs, even my laptops, for entirely private and non-profit purposes. Why should I pay for an expensive AV, just because I use Windows Server instead of XP/Vista/7 ?

By: Randy Lee

Randy Lee — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:21:50 +0000

Rising is the only free anti-vi besides Clam that runs on a server OS – so I am going to use them both. Better than nothing I guess.