Multiscanning
Multiscanning is running multiple anti-malware or antivirus engines concurrently. Traditionally, only a single engine can actively scan a system at a given time. Using multiple engines simultaneously can result in conflicts that lead to system freezes and application failures.[1][2] However, a number of security applications and application suites have optimized multiple engines to work together.
Reason
Testing agencies published results showing that no single antivirus engine is 100% effective against every malware threat.[3][4] Because each engine uses different scanning methodologies and updates their malware definition files at various frequencies, using multiple engines increases the likelihood of catching malware before it can affect a system or network.[5]
Vendors
- Coranti – Combined the engines of BitDefender, F-Prot, and the multiple ones of Lavasoft Ad-Aware. As of 31 December 2012 Coranti is no longer active.
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware – Combines an in-house engine with BitDefender engine.[6]
- eScan Antivirus – Combines the engines of BitDefender and MWL. Business editions also include the engines.
- F-Secure – Combines an in-house engine with BitDefender's engine.[7]
- G-Data AntiVirus – Combines in-house and BitDefender's engines. avast has been removed with version 2014.[8]
- GFI MailEssentials – Combines the engines of Bitdefender, VIPRE, Kaspersky, Avira and McAfee, together with some in-house GFI technologies like the Trojan and Exe engine.[9] GFI explains why one virus engine is not enough.[10]
- HitmanPro – Combines an in-house behavioral engine with a cloud containing engines from Kaspersky Lab and BitDefender.[11]
- Lavasoft Ad-Aware – Combines an in-house anti-spyware engine with Vipre's engine. Ad-Aware Total Security replaces Vipre with G-Data's multiple engines.
- Microsoft Forefront – Combines the engines of Authentium, Kaspersky, Norman and VirusBuster, with its own in-house engine.[12]
- OPSWAT Metadefender – Combines a configurable number of anti-malware engines (1 to 30) to scan for malware on premise. Also available with 42 engines in the cloud.[13]
- Qihoo 360 Internet Security use Bitdefender Engine, QVM 2 Engine,360 Cloud engine. But, Chinese version includes Avira engine additionally.
- Watchdog Anti-Malware - Combines an in-house behavioral engine with a cloud containing several engines using OPSWAT's Metsacan interface.[14]
Open Source Tools
- MultiAV[15] – An open source project similar to OPSWAT Metascan that combines a configurable number of anti-malware engines (1 to 18).[16]
- MultiScanner[17] – An open source file analysis framework that allows the user to evaluate a set of files with a set of tools. Comes with a set of modules for different malware analysis tools.[18]
See also
References
- ↑ Clash Of The Antivirus Apps. Smart Computing Article (2007-01-05). Retrieved on 2012-02-29.
- ↑ System Locks With Multiple Anti-Virus Programs | Dell. Support.dell.com (2005-03-15). Retrieved on 2012-02-29.
- ↑ Why one virus engine is not enough. GFI White Paper. gfi.com
- ↑ AV-TEST.org. AV-TEST. Retrieved on 2012-02-29.
- ↑ The advantage of multiple anti-virus engines on server products – Forefront Team Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs. Blogs.technet.com (2007-10-19). Retrieved on 2012-02-29.
- ↑ Emsisoft Anti-Malware Scanner Technology. Emsisoft.com. Retrieved on 2012-02-29.
- ↑ Bitdefender Releases Carrier IQ Finder for Android.
- ↑ Complete coverage of the G-Data Internet Security 2010 Antivirus & Security Software. PCWorld (2009-05-28). Retrieved on 2012-02-29.
- ↑ GFI MailEssentials Retrieved on 2014-09-02.
- ↑ GFI Whitepaper (PDF)
- ↑ http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro/intronew
- ↑ New Microsoft Forefront Software Runs Five Antivirus Vendors' Engines. Dark Reading (2010-05-05). Retrieved on 2012-02-29.
- ↑ Metascan Antivirus API | Symantec SDK, McAfee API, Kaspersky API. Opswat.com. Retrieved on 2012-02-29.
- ↑ "Anti-Malware - Watchdog Development".
- ↑ "GitHub - joxeankoret/multiav: MultiAV scanner with Python and JSON API". GitHub.
- ↑ "GitHub - joxeankoret/multiav: MultiAV scanner with Python and JSON API". GitHub.
- ↑ "GitHub - MITRECND/multiscanner: Modular file scanning/analysis framework". GitHub.
- ↑ "multiscanner/modules at master · MITRECND/multiscanner · GitHub". GitHub.
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