Once I’ve remotely seen a computer running a few antivirus installed together with the real time protection enabled via teamviewer. You may think that it’s impossible because normally the antivirus setup installer will check for any installed antivirus before allowing you to proceed with the installation. It is in fact possible if you know where the setup installer checks and temporarily remove the data to trick the installer. However, installing multiple antivirus is never good because of conflict and also slow down. If you haven’t noticed, those antivirus with multiple engines such as Coranti is one of the slowest in performance.

However with AVERT, you can have up to 8 antivirus engines (Asquared, ClamWin, Vba32, Trend Micro, VIPRE, Sophos, Panda and Avira) and they won’t even slow down your computer at all. That is because they are on-demand scanners used to perform full scan and doesn’t provide real time protection.

AVERT is very different because the file is only 3.4MB in size. Antivirus engines and definitions are not included by default, so you get to choose which engine you’d like to download and use, saving you a lot of time from downloading an antivirus engine that you don’t want to use. Other than that, AVERT also uses CCleaner to clean different temp file directories and files automatically to help save space and also to eliminate potential malware risk. It also includes 3 other tools to backup registry, reset windows HOSTS file and reset Windows proxy to resolve potential internet issues.

Install Multiple Antivirus

Although AVERT looks simply but it takes a little time to get familiar with it. When you run AVERT.exe, the first thing you need to do is to select which antivirus out of the 8 that you would like to download. Click on the Tools and Settings button which is located at the bottom left, and then click on Install Tool. VIPRE is already included by default and if you want the remaining 7 to be downloaded, simply enable the checkbox and click the Download button. AVERT then uses wget to automate the downloading of all 8 antivirus engines which is about 300MB.

Once you’ve finished downloading the antivirus engines, go back to the main window and click on Scan. There are 4 scan configurations which is Complete Scans, Balanced Scans, Quick Scans and Custom Scans.

Complete scans utilize all scanners and maximizes their options to provide the most thorough cleaning of malware. This option will take the longest time to complete, but will give you the best results.

Balanced scans utilizes a core scanner and other partial scanners to provide a thorough scanning, but is meant to be quicker than ‘Complete Scans’. This configuration is the default.

Quick scans utilizes partial scanners to provide a simple overview of potential malware, but isn’t meant for a good cleaning. Use this option only if you want it to be fast.

Custom scans allows you to select which antivirus engine to use and also the scanning configuration. You can also specify if you want to attempt to update the signatures first before scanning.

When you click on the Run Scans button, 7zip will be used to extract the downloaded antivirus engines and then auto downloads the latest virus definition signature file. One annoying feature is every time you want to run a scan, you will have to spend some time in downloading the huge signature file, for example the Emsisoft Commandline Scanner signature is currently at 75MB in size.

Secondly, all 8 antivirus engines uses their command line tool to perform the scan and I expect that removing detected malware will not be as advanced as the full version antivirus software. For example, if you have a virus that protects its own process by blue screening the computer whenever it is forcefully terminated, then the malware will not be removed. AVERT would be better to have an option just to scan and log without the removal feature.

Thirdly, you cannot scan a custom folder. It has to be either full scan or don’t use it at all. Finally, downloading the latest Panda virus signature file requires login credentials and using Avira command line scanner requires license by placing HBEDV.KEY file in \Scanners\AviraAntivir\. AVERT is still very new and there are rooms for improvement. They’ve also started implementing usage of installed antivirus such as AVG to run the scan from AVERT.

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