Comments on: Top-notch Vietnamese software BKAV raises antivirus bar

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[JuL_LeVi]

thing so-called BKAV is just a Holy ****! It's absolutely a severe Virus , no less no more!

[winspring]

Why do you base yourself on reasones to assert "It's absolutely a severe Virus , no less no more!"

[altus_pl]

Shameless attempt at an ad-op for an undeserving product. On the other hand, I'm glad to see Vietnamese developers joining the crowd. If only they could chose a different path than making vaporware for a debut.

[d2globalinc]

I also got a new antivirus - its called Ubuntu.

[kerryWilliam]

I wonder why the author Dong Ngo gave many good words to this virus and claimed it to be a antivirus. I googled this virus and downloaded BkavHome edition and holysh*t !!! It worked like a sucker. this BKAV virus sucked my PC. Although it did have an option of English interface and installation process took 2 seconds, it was rubbish. What it could do was destroyed some macros my documents and these macros were good, not macro virus or sh*t . F*ck BKAV virus.

[kissmevnn]

BKAV is suck

[hcmcfred]

BKAV: remove immediately! Read full post on my blog: livinginsaigonvietnam.blogspot.com/2008/12/vietnamese-software-review-bkav.html

[MrNormal]

Actually you didn't do anything carefully and I think you should try it more carefully before you say something. BKAV Home is free and you needn't to pay any money, of course if you go on the right address to download.
If anyone says that BKAV doesn't have realtime protect, that's just they don't know much about BKAV. I have used KAV 7.0.0.125 and BKAV at the same time and found that BKAV cleaned some viruses which caused many problem on my PC that KAV wasn't able.

[ahives]

I have not actually used this product before and dont plan to because I am happy with what I got (Norton 360 v2) but as a software engineer myself I doubt very seriously some of the claims in this article such as it installs in 1 second.

"Taking up only roughly 13MB after installation (as opposed to hundreds of megabytes in other applications), BKAV is capable of protecting your computer against and removing all threats including viruses, trojans, spyware, rootkits, and malicious links spread through e-mail or or Yahoo chat. "

I doubt that very seriously. No antivirus software is capable of doing what is being claimed here. Antivirus software is currently updated by virus definition files that are created by humans and executed by the virus software once installed on the user's machine. Does this software smartly adapts itself when it comes across a virus on the user's machine and creates a solution on the fly without any human interaction and user download & installation? In other words, is BKAV really Skynet? The point is that this like all antivirus software relies on software engineers to develop virus definition files that are installed on the user's machine and executed by the antivirus software once a virus is discovered. This implicitly means that the antivirus software is as effective as its virus definitions, which means that there is no way that they have created virus definitions for all viruses, short from it being able to generated these definitions on the fly like Skynet. I am not convinced that 300 software engineers can find and create more definitions than the resources than say, Symantec, brings to the table. Even if every one of those 300 software engineers are good, I can guarentee that Symantec has much more than 300 good software engineers working on their Norton product line.

"Quang told me BKIS is working on making its software and services available outside of Vietnam in 2009. "

This sounds to me like their software works very well within the confines of Vietnam's borders but they will need to beef it up before it can run in the wild on a typical western machine. If this is not the case I doubt very seriously that this software would not have already been introduced into the U.S. market before 2009 considering how good the article's author has said it performs relative to Norton or McAfee. My guess is that it is good but not good enough for primetime like, say, Norton 360 v2 (Norton 360 v1 sucked because it was unstable).

[blarfo]

I tried BKAV on 1/7/2009, after downloading latest version of setup and update for free home version.
No sign of active protection option.

I scanned my windows drive (c:\Windows). It claimed to have found and cleaned 4 viruses.

OOPS! By clean, it meant DELETED!
It deleted the uninstall programs from CCleaner and ImgBurn (a nice CD/DVD burning program), and 2 Nvidia system programs (sw20, sw24, from \Winsows\system32). Fortunately, I had backups.

As to resource use, it used just over 100MB ram (per taskmanager), which is more than twice as much as the latest ZoneAlarm Security suite.

I have deleted it from my system (using revo uninstaller to make sure that it is GONE).

My system is Win XP Pro/SP3, running on an Athlon X2 64, with 2GB RAM.

[Pienn]

Do not use this antivirus software !!! This is a true trojan.
About:
_ It's useless
_ It costs much RAM
_ It damages your kernel
_ It just is used for Win XP

I'm a victim. :(

[winspring]

You are a victim, it's right, but it's caused by Bkav...
You are a victim because you unknow how to use this program to protect your computer. if you want to know it, please connect to me to get some experience.

I think Bkavhome is enough for all of us....

[quanglh_vn]

I'm now working at Software Department of BKAV. I myself think that I have some knowledge about BKAV. Let me tell you something about it.

Like some last paragraphs of the article mentioned, BKAV is not so welcome in VN, especially by young people who have a tiny knowledge about comupter and especilally about virus (which they mostly don't know they do). I don't know that xenophilia or whatever is the reason, but it's a very sad fact.

1- Most of them never touch BKAV Pro even once. BKAV Home have no update ablility. Thus, It's not a suprise thing that an AV application that is not up to date is useless.
2- The strength of an AV application depend much on how fast they got virus patterns. Only by using BKAV Pro, you can send a new virus patern or your computer's statement log to BKAV server. Within 24 hour the new virus will be solved, so that your computer will be heal. The more BKAV Pro users BKAV have, the stronger BKAV Pro are. An AV application can't be strong itself.

Sometimes BKAV detected some virus but couldn't solve it. The reason is that BKAV found a new virus have a similar structure to a known virus (but not the same). It's the way that BKAV warn user about the new virus. To solve the problem, all you have to do now is call the contact centre for some help, send them the virus pattern or your computer's statement log. That's the way that this virus will be solved after next update of BKAV Pro.

Because of some conflict things, use only one AV application on your computer. More than ont AV applications may be the cause of some unwanted virsu treatments (which may be not if there is only one of the AV application installed on your computer). When needing an AV application, find yourself a best one and using only it to avoid conflict problems. If you have trust in BKAV, pls uninstall other AV application.

I myself have used BKAV Pro in 6 months and I have had nothing like "BKAV is killling windows" or something like that.

BKIS have a virus lab itself. One of their task is comparing BKAV Pro with all wellknown AV application on the world like KAS, NAV... BKIS is very suprised itself that BKAV is even better than the other AV application in some points. That's the reason why Mr Quang confidently said that "BKIS is working on making its software and services available outside of Vietnam in 2009". It might come true after BKAV2009 which have a totally new interface and some new technical features is completely finished and distributed.

I know that many people will find it's hard to believe in what a BKAV guy tell about BKAV. For them, just let BKAV prove itselft as time goes by.

@Some Vietnamese guys: why don't you guy at least just say good luck to BKAV :(. You guys don't have any pround about Vietnamese intelligence?

It's just some tiny knowledge of a software guy about the virus field so please be calm in your judgment. Sorry for my bad English and thank you for reading my opinion.

[singcang89]

I do not agree with you quanglh_vn. I have experience BKAV BKAV Home and Pro, all of which made me disappointed because after using other software such as Kaspersky and Avira Premium .I expect to discover that i have BKAV antivirut Smart scan , Rootkit Scan, back up files almost no use, not thoroughly to kill viruses, do not scan the file. rar ... my friends has removed BKAV, you can also remove BKAV Pro was included in the pre-purchase. I think BKAV should concentrate to their products more.

[singcang89]

BKAV antivirut

- not have read Protect time.
- Can't scan file. Rar. Zip.
- Back up file of almost BKAV sightseeing.
- Can't scan Rootkit .
-Not have Smart scan mode (scan smart)
-interface is bad
-occupied space of the ram, more than 100 MB max.
-remove the machine from BKAV still 3-4 raw file, reboot the file is still....

[winspring]

To get further technical assistance, please follow these steps below to help Bkav company to define your computer situation:

Download the BkavHomeTool.exe software from this link: http://Bkav.com.vn/home/download/BkavHomeTool.exe and save in C: drive (or Desktop).
Then double click to run BkavHomeTool.exe
Click on ?Ghi log? button and choose a folder to save the Kiemtra2009.bkc file
And last, please send the Kiemtra2009.bkc file to Bkav company by email: [e-mail]

If you follow this step, I believe you has been got good services from Bkav... Good luck.

[testdirectly]

This tool is Vietnamese interface... => difficult to use. But I still make a kiemtra2009 file successfully. How do I open this file?. I want to know about my PC processes, and other things...

[thechariot]

To foreign BKAV users, I myself a long time user of BKAV Home, and don't have enough money to purchase a Pro version.

To Mr. quanglh_vn:
_ "Most of them never touch BKAV Pro even once. BKAV Home have no update ablility. Thus, It's not a suprise thing that an AV application that is not up to date is useless." => you meant BKAV Home is really a sucking rubbish? so, why you've still providing this sucker to Vietnamese users?
_ "The strength of an AV application depend much on how fast they got virus patterns... An AV application can't be strong itself." Many free AV has this function, for example my Comodo internet security. And, because the strength of the AV program depends on users, how can the never - used - in Vietnam "BKAV pro" solve a giant number of virus patterns all over the world?
_ "You guys don't have any pround about Vietnamese intelligence?" - we don't think its our nation's intelligence. Anyway, gud luck to your sucking BKAV

[nobita_it]

Bkav is a big banana. In Vietnam, if someone can use computer not bad, they never use BKAV.

[Max_0verkill]

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/bkav.com.vn?aff_id=661

[doducluyen]

BKAV = BK Active Virus =))

[vinhctruong]

I'm Vietnamese. Believe me, I used to use BKAV and I had to ghost my Windows. In Vietnam, just only noob use BKAV. But BKAV is the antivirus software that installs/removes fastest in the world. Haha... I'd rather use no antivirus software than BKAV. It's suck. =))

[luckyluke113]

Be careful !!! There's a new BOMB TRANSPORTER :))