My dear forum friends,
Anyone something on herdProtect scanner. Scans with 68 scanners, Can it be used as a second op scanner next to avast residential av?
http://www.herdprotect.com/index.aspx
polonus
Heres a list of the engines: http://www.herdprotect.com/engines.aspx
Huge amount of them. 
The interface is simple and clean. (Screenshot)
The VM im using has no AV on it and is still infected by that Comprovante and avcheck malware. 
During the scan it shows the amount of files scanned in a graph, or maybe its showing something else there.
There is some interesting information in their Knowledgebase: http://www.herdprotect.com/knowledgebase.aspx
And there is the comprovante.exe listed which is running in memory at the moment caused by the avcheck file: http://www.herdprotect.com/comprovante.exe-20bf57abe89650fdab9f2611428f90e4f2c53632.aspx
Screenshot with the results is attached.
Looks like yes.
Best of all, like all herdProtect products, the scanner is a second line of defense and is designed to work perfectly with your existing antivirus software.
I’m testing it now, thanks for the link, D. The principle reminds me of Comodo DACS, which was abandoned for potential legal reasons.
Thank Damien,
A nice addition to the arsenal. 
I’m a little confused, maybe it’s my medication, is this safe to have next to both avast and MBAM Pro? ???
If it’s safe I’ll add it to my, as Bob put it, arsenal.
I like layered protection.
It works perfectly with Comodo full suite except for many false positive detections from the lesser known AV’s (normal for that many scanners, I suppose). S/A I’m gonna install it on a system with Avast (latest version) next.
Downloaded the set up file, but cannot make it work on dial-up connection in Vista.
It closed down in windows with an error.
error report: Fault bucket 4071759553, type 5
Name of occurence: CLR20r3
Reply: No
Id van CAB-bestand: 0
Signature of problem:
P1: herdprotectscan.exe
P2: 1.0.0.0
P3: 52b47028
P4: herdProtectScan
P5: 1.0.0.0
P6: 52b47028
P7: 134
P8: 0
P9: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
P10:
Included files:
C:\Users\polonus\AppData\Local\Temp\WER7FA3.tmp.version.txt
These files maybe available from:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Report1fefa9bf
polonus
Hi polonus,
Could you analyze the minidump? I’m scanning a Vista SP2 with Avast on a 20 Mbps shared network connection right now without issue. I don’t think herdprotect will work well on dial up because of the amount of data that has to be transferred, but it shouldn’t crash Windows, either.
The error may have come with a problem usually meaning that Microsoft .NET Framework installation is either damaged or corrupted.
Uninstall the current installation of Microsoft .NET Framework
Clean the registry using a good quality registry cleaner to remove any invalid .Net Framework entries in the Windows registry
Download and install the most recent version of Microsoft .NET Framework
Restart your computer - gonna try that,
polonus
Sounds like a plan!
Meanwhile, my scan on Vista has completed. Many fewer FP’s than on XP.
I think my install problem is because I am behind a dongle proxy - Microsoft Fix It Center does not run at it either and home on cable I am fine.
polonus
Read on their site that there is a portable version available, however I havent seen anything of it while browsing it.
Edit: Nevermind, looks like it should be available sometime later this year.
I used this for the first time, today. It did find some malware tucked away and removed it. I was quite impressed. I have since tried to do a bit of research and when I clicked on the manufacturers’ website:
Reason Software Company Inc.
builtwithreason.com/
WOT flagged up a RED warning, so I am now not so convinced.
WOT https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.herdprotect.com
WOT https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/builtwithreason.com
remeber WOT it is reputation based …
not blacklisted
https://www.virustotal.com/nb/url/677f26aa76654eec4f2539e28b678dcd9d14ab044869c532428cac6dce023f47/analysis/1426530701/
Only 4 to 7% of users have removed any software from Reason Software: http://www.shouldiremoveit.com/Reason-Software-Company-5231-publisher.aspx
For issues: http://secunia.com/community/advisories/vendor/6756
Read also here: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/521095/have-u-heard-of-herd-protect-scan/
polonus
Thanks for your replies guys. When I posted to this forum I posted to the MBAM forum also. Please see the reply to my post there.
https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/166126-herdprotect/#entry947836
Damien,
It’s been recommended before:
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=153686.msg1117593#msg1117593
According to the Malwarebytes post, they arent using the definitions legally? Anyone know if thats true, or does nobody care.
The fact that that WOT flagged up the manufacturers with a red warning and they are using other companies’ definitions illegally does not sit comfortably with me when using a ‘security’ program.
@Ted45,
Here is an illegal beta herdprotect antii-malware scanner mentioned: https://www.herdprotect.com/herdprotect-anti-malware-scanner-1.0.3.6-beta.exe-d0297fb529b26d7e4fdd1f93964876dc5d198d10.aspx
Illegal versions are found in adware bundles.
This is an illegal scam version, possibly with malware: https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/herdprotect.findmysoft.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=popup
So look hard to see that you have the real McCoy.
Minus is the relative high FP content,
polonus