Quick Heal is bull$hit

blackpearl · 24-09-2006, 12:45 PM

After reading the reviews on different anti virus programs in Fast Track this month, I decided to try out some of them and do my own review. I was using Avast and though it has good detection, I was not happy because of its lack of heuristic scanning. One of the AV programs I tried was Quick Heal, and I tell you its worthless.

I have a couple of trojans and malicious programs on my computer (safely locked inside a folder) that I used to test the AV programs. Quick Heal failed to detect most of it!! It failed to detect even the famous backdoor trojan Back Orifice. There is another program which when run resets the BIOS; all AV I tested detected the program as either "malicious" or "trojan" except Quick Heal. It even failed to detect a few trojan binders that I have on my computer. The detection is very poor. If you are using Quick Heal, you might not be protected, specially from trojans. Another dumb feature in Quick Heal is that the resident program can scan only EXE files or user defined files. There is no option like "scan all files".

I haven't seen a worse AV like this. My advice is not to use Quick Heal.

~Phenom~ · 24-09-2006, 12:51 PM

I agree quick heal is useless.
BTW, can u tell me how u have kept viruses safely on ur system for testing AV????

blackpearl · 24-09-2006, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ~Phenom~

BTW, can u tell me how u have kept viruses safely on ur system for testing AV????

No viruses, only trojans. Downloaded from the net, zipped them and stored them inside a folder and then locked the folder using Folder Lock. Its safe as long as you don't execute (double-click) on the trojans, have to be careful though. It also helps to test how well an AV can detect viruses/trojans inside an archive file. Only Bit Defender detected the trojans without opening the zip file, pretty smart. All others were able to detect them only after extracting the files from the archive. As for Quick Heal, it detected none.

Bit Defender is the best but is very heavy on resources and it slows down activities like opening programs and folders noticeably. Antivir is good too and light on resources and is fast.

rakeshishere · 24-09-2006, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by blackpearl

No viruses, only trojans. Downloaded from the net, zipped them and stored them inside a folder and then locked the folder using Folder Lock. Its safe as long as you don't execute (double-click) on the trojans, have to be careful though. It also helps to test how well an AV can detect viruses/trojans inside an archive file. Only Bit Defender detected the trojans without opening the zip file, pretty smart. All others were able to detect them only after extracting the files from the archive. As for Quick Heal, it detected none.

Bit Defender is the best but is very heavy on resources and it slows down activities like opening programs and folders noticeably. Antivir is good too and light on resources and is fast.

Well did u try NOD32..Suppose the resident program is ON and u try dwdnlng any stuff like virus,trojan...It nvr allows u

...The dwnld goes up till 99.9 % and on 100% the file just disappears[meaning gets deleted]...I have experienced this stuff

jz2linkinpark · 24-09-2006, 03:31 PM

quick heal is $hit, so how were you able to collect the trojans?

soham · 24-09-2006, 03:35 PM

PC-Cillin Internet Security 2007 is good too but is a bit heavy on resources. I suppose NOD 32 is the lightest amongst Antiviruses. Now only if it had a complete security suite.

rakeshishere · 24-09-2006, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by soham

PC-Cillin Internet Security 2007 is good too but is a bit heavy on resources. I suppose NOD 32 is the lightest amongst Antiviruses. Now only if it had a complete security suite.

I agree with u but i dnt think its incomplete ..Only stuff it doesnt boast like others and very less ad for the product but like others who sound hi-fi

anandk · 24-09-2006, 06:22 PM

i agree , quickheal may not be considered as being a great av, but u really cant judge an av just bcox it misd a file. i usually have kav, avast, bitdfndr on my lappie, and many a times one misses, and the other detects it as malware. why just last week kav did not detect a trijan donloader as one, whereas avast identified it as one. was surprised !

kav, bitdefender, nod32 can be considered as the finest av, imo

blackpearl · 24-09-2006, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by jz2linkinpark

quick heal is $hit, so how were you able to collect the trojans?

I downloaded the trojans by temporarily disabling the resident program. By the way, I had downloaded these trojans a long time ago, maybe a year or so. At that time I was using Norton.

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Originally Posted by anandk

i agree , quickheal may not be considered as being a great av, but u really cant judge an av just bcox it misd a file. i usually have kav, avast, bitdfndr on my lappie, and many a times one misses, and the other detects it as malware. why just last week kav did not detect a trijan donloader as one, whereas avast identified it as one. was surprised !

Agreed. That happens.

From my personal experience, Norton has the best detection. Its script blocking utility is a great help when browsing the net. It detects even password breaking programs like Cain & Abel and I have seen it detecting exploits written in Perl and C. Awesome!! I have never seen such good detection with any other AV. Maybe Bit Defender is a lot like Norton, but I have not tested those exploits with it.

And yes, avast is good.

djmykey · 24-09-2006, 06:52 PM

Ok that now u have known that, u missed the most found virus and the most seemingly harmless one. Redlof. Yeah the same one that creates a folder.htt and desktop.htt in each and every folder of your computer. Now who would b so dumb to exclude that virus frm the database, ur right Quickheal.

Now their hq is here in Pune, Mayfair Towers. I used to have a premium liscence of Quick Heal for 5 pcs of my Cafe. Those buggers used to showup only when the liscence used to expire and had to be renewed. The last time they came to me I said "You mofos get the hell outta my place, u ppl cant even detect a simple virus and u want me to buy it. Shame on you." That guy was red faced. Next day the office ppl called me to ask why I wasnt renewing the liscence. I said when free av's r better than urs y the hell shud I waste 2.5k on ur product. That guy also shut his mouth and no one called ever.

Since then its just KAV, KAV and KIS.

blackpearl · 24-09-2006, 07:12 PM

^^^ LOL
I can't believe it, QH is so dumb!! Its an Indian company right?
Digit should stop providing it on their DVDs.

mkmkmk · 25-09-2006, 05:22 PM

quick heal is totally waste of money.......

7monk · 08-10-2006, 10:46 PM

FOR ME quick heal IS WORKING FINE.quick heal DETECTS WORMS WHICH AVG FREE CAN NOT.

shaunak · 16-10-2006, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by soham

PC-Cillin Internet Security 2007 is good too but is a bit heavy on resources. I suppose NOD 32 is the lightest amongst Antiviruses. Now only if it had a complete security suite.

Think avast or avg is the lightest AV

blackpearl · 16-10-2006, 08:13 PM

NOD32 is good. The only problem is its virus definations cannot be downloaded seperately.

Zeeshan Quireshi · 19-10-2006, 12:54 PM

yeah , but nod32 definitions r really small . but i don't think there's a need to use AV progs , i don't .

mediator · 19-10-2006, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by blackpearl

It failed to detect even the famous backdoor trojan Back Orifice.

BUt back orifice is one the oldest trojan creators! Failed to detect that? Hmmmmm, neways I can sense u do a lotta negetive activities ! Keep it up

sysfilez · 19-10-2006, 02:45 PM

i have all the de antivrius s/ws IMO kaspersky is the best. quick heal is de last option.

Kiran.dks · 19-10-2006, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by anandk

i agree , quickheal may not be considered as being a great av, but u really cant judge an av just bcox it misd a file. i usually have kav, avast, bitdfndr on my lappie, and many a times one misses, and the other detects it as malware. why just last week kav did not detect a trijan donloader as one, whereas avast identified it as one. was surprised !

kav, bitdefender, nod32 can be considered as the finest av, imo

Are you serious? KAV, avast! and Bitdefender on ur laptop? It's too many resource swallowers! Bit defender itself is great resource hug....

7monk · 20-10-2006, 07:56 PM

i am goimg back to avg.QH deleted my some feb flash files(jokes).i will never install QH again.

Kiran.dks · 21-10-2006, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by 7monk

i am goimg back to avg.QH deleted my some feb flash files(jokes).i will never install QH again.

Very true. Quick Heal and Antivir are very ineffective. I jus don't know why on earth they are made for?

abhijangda · 15-03-2007, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by blackpearl

After reading the reviews on different anti virus programs in Fast Track this month, I decided to try out some of them and do my own review. I was using Avast and though it has good detection, I was not happy because of its lack of heuristic scanning. One of the AV programs I tried was Quick Heal, and I tell you its worthless.

I have a couple of trojans and malicious programs on my computer (safely locked inside a folder) that I used to test the AV programs. Quick Heal failed to detect most of it!! It failed to detect even the famous backdoor trojan Back Orifice. There is another program which when run resets the BIOS; all AV I tested detected the program as either "malicious" or "trojan" except Quick Heal. It even failed to detect a few trojan binders that I have on my computer. The detection is very poor. If you are using Quick Heal, you might not be protected, specially from trojans. Another dumb feature in Quick Heal is that the resident program can scan only EXE files or user defined files. There is no option like "scan all files".

I haven't seen a worse AV like this. My advice is not to use Quick Heal.

I think you all are mad and even kiran tech mania. How can you say any thing to Quick Heal without using it. Anyone of you know how to use Quick Heal (qh). I am using it for more than one year and haven't gotten a virus. It is having features like daily update, weekly update and monthly update. And only he knows who uses it for more than one year like me not that one who uses it not even a hour. You have done daily update not monthly update. For "scan all files" question run qh then go to options. Then go to scan options there you will find what items to scan and select all files ok beginner. One who uses a thing for more than 1 year like me and is expert of that can tell whether it is good or bad but not a new born child like you can tell about it.

I have to use this type of language becuase of you only. Now see inside you and find why. Ok mad people.

djmykey · 16-03-2007, 07:28 AM

Ok mr so called expert you want someone's opinion who has used it for a long time then its me. I have used that av since 2000 till 2003. Ok I have to agree with you that the av is light i mean it runs good even on a 500 MHz machine but that doesnt mean that it shud not detect viruses. Now u say that we didnt update and didnt scan regularly blah blah blah. Hey I did that all ok for 2 years, I updated the antivirus and scanned all of my 5 pc's every morning. And still after a month or so I wud have to format all my pc's. U say we dont update, the d@mn av cudnt detect the oldest and well know spaces virus. Now that virus is known for like ages. But still qh never detected it, now do u wanna give me and explaination. And yes qh was always online and I never used to shut it down anytime. I had paid for the liscences but still this thing used to happen in my cafe. Now I have no av nothing just deep freeze and im without any probs tho this is a lil bit off topic. Anyways last bit after paying for the av also the qh guys neva came to see my problems. Even their online help sucked. I had taken a hdd to their office and told them to scan it but they cudnt detect anything. whereas at my friends house we cleaned it using norton (yeah that time norton was the big boss) even if we called the qh guys they never turned up. But they used to turn up whenever the contract was supposed to be renewed. So the last time they called or turned up i told them to their face ur product is a piece of $hit and u can keep it for ur self im not gonna pay for something i dun like and u can support.

abhijangda · 16-03-2007, 10:24 AM

Hey djmykey, I want to tell you that no av detect all the viruses. Someone detects one which others donot. For your question about qh vs. norton. I want to tell you that it will not be a virus but it will be a spyware. Quick Heal is not the good antispyware but is very good av. One more thing you have used older versions I think 7.02 or 6.0 around it. Use latest version 9.00 or 2007. It is much stronger than previous version. Only updating will not solve your problem. If you remember then it also do version update. But for your old version the version update is not available. So it downloaded the definition currently availaible for your version. This will only do daily update. Not weekly or monthly update.

blackpearl · 16-03-2007, 12:03 PM

Somebody please give him the link where Anti virus test results are. Show him that Quick Heal is at the bottom of the list at around 50-60% detection rate.
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Originally Posted by abhijangda

How can you say any thing to Quick Heal without using it.

If you have read carefully, I wrote that after using and testing it. Also read what djmykey has to say.

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Originally Posted by abhijangda

I am using it for more than one year and haven't gotten a virus.

That doesn't prove anything. You may be just damn lucky or you may have plenty of viri under your hood not even knowing it. Some people don't even use any anti virus softawre and still manage to survive; you just have to use a litle common sense. But does it mean that Windows alone with no AV is enough? And most likely is that you have got lots of virus but QH can't detect it. Thats why I said that its worthless. It can't detect even simple common viruses. QH didn't detect any virus for you for the past 1 yr does not necessarily mean you don't have viruses. QH is famous for not detecting viruses.

djmykey · 16-03-2007, 05:13 PM

Dude I have paid the qh ppl lumpsome money man and you think that they will release an update and if i dont get it I will keep quiet. I had updates from 5 - 6 and 6 - 7. When even 7 was useless then I decided to stop using it. See I am somewhat good at windows and stuff and you think that I'm flaming some antivirus because I dint have a good exp. Na I am just warning ppl against it because its useless in my opinion.