Program: Simple Machine Protect 1.7.2
License: Open Source
Description: A simple open source antivirus. Simple Machine Protect is portable antivirus software for your Windows Operating System, build to remove certain variant of virus, worm, trojan and spyware from your computer. Simple Machine Protect is free to distribute, and free to use. Simple Machine Protect was designed to be a simple, open source antivirus scanner.
Website: http://smp.e-freshware.com/index.php
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Looks promising
Has some features that ClamWin does not have.
Do you know anything about how often the product updates [daily, weekly, etc]
Any stats on how effective it is?
Do you know if it requires Admin privileges to fully scan and fix [it mentions fixing the registry]
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
I'm with you. That's a very nice find.
Edit: Here's a few of the updates. Been around monthly so far.
Edit2: Here's the full list of releases.
it looks that there are only abt 600 virus sigs included, so this will not be the real big thing in virus search when we remamber that other products reaching 1 million sigs in their products and are updating them often hourly.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
we should stick this as an ideal request...
looks like it has just the right format
Please search before posting. ~Thanks
It's developed using Visual Basic if I remember correctly and also if I remember correctly it needs the .net framework too (don't quote me on that, remember this is all through memory :P)
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
Hmm not sure what the "VB Runtime" refers to... but since it says "Virtual Machine"
I'm assuming this is .NETRequirements:
http://smp.e-freshware.com/index.php?page=download
Runtime application:
* Visual Basic Virtual Machine.
* Process Status Helper.
* Windows Common Controls ActiveX Control DLL.
CORRECTION: I looked at the source. This is done in VB6
/sylikc