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This leaves you unlikely to spot the Registry deletions, unable to learn from them (perhaps they're an indication of wider problems), confused by any change in Windows or application behaviour (because you believe the scan didn't do anything), and struggling to know how to fix things, if that turns out to be necessary (if you don't know when these deletions happened, you won't know which system restore point or backup will restore your previous state.) That may rarely have any impact, but it stinks as an operating principle, because it's altering the state of the system while simultaneously telling the user that nothing has changed. We found the scanner deleted Registry items it considered suspect, but not only did it not tell the user, it actively reported zero 'objects deleted'. If you need to check you must switch back to the Explorer folder and hope your targets are still selected. Scan selected files from Explorer's right-click, for instance, and the Summary report won't list their names, and they're not even displayed in the Details tab. Scanning results are presented poorly, and often miss out relevant information. Would you check the box marked вЂUse separate exclude list for ODSвЂ™? What happens if you apply an вЂautomaticвЂ™ action in case of infection, rather than вЂdeleteвЂ™? What's the difference between scanning program files only, and using вЂautomatic type detectionвЂ™? A Help file gives some basic assistance, but non-experts might wish the program was a little easier to use. We're normally big fans of configurability and options, but in this case it's not clear what some of them do. Tapping any of these displays assorted settings which you can use to change how the scan works. Still, click it and you get a good set of scan types: quick, system, USB drives, CD-ROM and a custom scan. Meanwhile the much more important Scan function is relegated to a small icon at the bottom of the screen. It would have made more sense to bundle most of these into a single Settings dialog, where they're only visible when you need them. You might think that clicking these would lead to important actions, but no - they largely take you to very basic status information and links to Settings and other dialogs. It leaves the suite looking more like a Computer Science students' personal project than a professional product from a big security vendor.Д®Scan Anti-Virus has a bulky console which is mostly white space, but with five tiles for key areas of the program: File Anti-Virus, Mail Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Firewall and Cloud Protection.

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We can't say what the true security impact of all this might be, but software which tries to tie together so many executables from different sources gives malware many more ways to attack it, as well as increasing the possibility of bugs.

(Future updates cover changes only, and are much faster.)Д¬hecking the program's files and folders revealed something of a mess, with more than 150 executables from multiple providers, including Bitdefender, eScan, open source tools, Windows components (is that really an ancient copy of sc.exe?), and some files so old they seem to be left over from Windows NT. This proved very, very slow, taking around 8 minutes on even our 75Mbps test system, but eventually the package was ready to go.

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Once the pop-up alert is dismissed, you'll only notice the issue at all if you read the virus signature date.Д«izarrely, although eScan seemed completely unable to update itself automatically, we were able to launch a manual update in a couple of clicks.

We would have expected an issue like months-old signatures to be highlighted in the interface with a big red cross, an 'INSECURE!' warning or some other alert, but no. A pop-up dialog complained about this and seemed to say it couldn't update itself, suggesting it might be due to a problem with our internet connection, even though this was working just fine for every other application on our system.

On first launch the program displays the 'Date of virus signatures' which was more than three months earlier, presumably because it hadn't been updated yet.

Setup is simple, but a little unpolished. Close the pop-up window and you can choose to download the package as normal.

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There are trial builds available for all the main eScan products, and although the download page asks for your email address, you don't have to provide it.

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The system requirements on the website also gave the product a dusty, dated feel, with talk of how e-Scan needs at least Windows 2000 Professional SP4 with Internet Explorer 7.0 or a display with a resolution of 640x480, and no mention of Windows 10 at all.