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Difference Between the Free and Paid Version of Rising Antivirus 2009

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Dec
18
2009

Yesterday I read a post in forum saying that the free and paid version of Rising Antivirus 2009 is exactly the same. I second that because I did a quick comparison a few months ago and found that they don’t have much differences. If you go to the RISING FREE Antivirus homepage, it says that the latest Rising Antivirus Free Edition has the same service and function as Rising Antivirus 2009 paid version, but there are some four differences which is:
Free RISING Antivirus

1. Information centre service: The free edition has an information centre window in its main interface where it displays the latest news of company. As for the paid version, there is no such window.

2. Update Service: RISING paid version product gets update through high speed update server each day, but Rising Antivirus Free Edition product does not.

3. Fast response technical support for paid version and limited support for free edition.

4. Licensed users gets Rising Firewall for free.

Basically only the first two points are the differences in the software. The third and the fourth point are extra benefit/service offered by RISING to their customers. The paid version of RISING Antivirus cost USD$19.95 per year and let’s see if it is really worth the money or not.


I downloaded both paid and free version of RISING Antivirus 2009 and tested it one at a time. Both the program folders has the exact same files. So I thought that maybe the registry is the place where it determines if the program is recognized as the free or paid version. I analyzed the registry keys created by RISING and also found not much difference.

I had to go deeper by monitoring the installation with SysTracer and Total Uninstall. This time I found that RISING Antivirus created some files at the application data folder. This path is being used by some software to stores its settings and configuration. If you go to %appdata%\Rising\Rav folder, there is a file RsConfig.cfg that determines if the program should be a free or paid version. If you copy the RsConfig.cfg file from the free edition to the paid version, the paid version instantly turns into a free version. Vice versa. This RsConfig.cfg file is encrypted and not editable by text editor or hex editor. You also cannot delete the RsConfig.cfg file. Once it’s gone, the program will treat it as corrupted and wants you to reinstall again. That’s about the “information centre service” window.
RISING Information Centre Service

Next, I’ve used URLSnooper to check on the URLs that RISING Antivirus connects to get the latest program updates and virus definitions. Both versions first connects to rsup09.rising.com.cn to get a few xml files to compare if the computer has the latest virus definitions. When it requires to download the definitions, both version connects to down.rising-global.com.
RISING Definition Update Server
This shows that point number 2, “RISING paid version product gets update through high speed update server each day, but Rising Antivirus Free Edition product does not” is fake.

If you ask, why is it that the installer for paid version is 5MB bigger than the free version? That’s because the installer for paid version is compiled with a newer engine and virus definition so you don’t need to spend as much time as the free version in updating after installation.

Since I never reviewed RISING Antivirus 2009 before, here are some little information about it. After installing RISING Antivirus 2009, there will be an extra 6 processes namely CCenter.exe, RavMonD.exe, RavTask.exe, rsnetsvr.exe, RsTray.exe and ScanFrm.exe. All of the 6 process takes up about 23MB during idle. A full scan on a clean Windows XP service pack 3 with all latest hotfixes took 17 minutes 36 seconds.

Now you know the difference between the paid and the free version of RISING Antivirus 2009. Whether it is worth paying USD$19.95 for the paid version is entirely up to you to judge. As for me, I would be just fine with the free version since there are no popups or any nag screen like Avira free (which of course can be disabled). Just another thought, I wonder when will RISING Antivirus 2010 be out since most of the antivirus companies has upgraded their version to 2010…


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    • David Macdonald

      At last, the differences has finally been explained. Rising’s website didn’t mention anything about the free version, which can only be found at download site such as CNET.

    • Firas

      Thank you Raymond for the info ;-)

    • safeguy

      Cool comparison. I have tried Rising Antivirus Free before but I could not stay with it for long. Only 2 days and it’s out of my PC. I felt that it was slowing down my boot process but then again, that was some time ago. I’ve got no clue how it performs now with the latest version.

      I’ve always had no idea what’s the difference between the free and paid version of Rising. But now, I guess there’s nothing much to justify users paying for it…if you’re a Rising Free user…just stick to it.

      Otherwise, try Avira. It’s free too and works better in my honest opinion.

    • KyEap

      Then does any difference between a illegal license and legal license register in Kaspersky Anti Virus or Kaspersky Internet Security ?

    • roy raay

      thanks for the info, cheers!

    • Ahmad Saleem

      Cool Comparison, I should stick to my AVIRA, but Thanks raymond for you effort…….

    • hideipuser

      Very useful comparison. Thanks.

    • Raitokun

      2010 version is already out : http://www.rising.com.cn/default.html
      Anyways, thanks for the great post

    • Terry-Anne

      Wow, you did your homework once again! Very interesting and well explained. Thank you.

    • Rajib

      rising worked great for me for some days only. Then it became a playing tool. It’s no longer helping me.

    • MerleOne

      Hi,
      I got a mail a few days ago from them confirming that the 2009 version is NOT Win7 compatible. We have to wait for the 2010 version.

    • QUANZI

      RISING 2010 beta has been released for a while, only in China though. But the installer does support English.

    • Joe

      Cool comparison but honestly I think that when a free AV comes into play nothing can beat AVIRA ANTIVIR 9 or AVAST.

      What do you make of it, Raymond?

      Nevertheless, I suggest you giving a try to another free RISING product called “RISING PC DOCTOR” I recently stumbled upon that can dramatically enhance the protection of your system against any kind of malware, cyberthreat and malicious websites.

      http://www.rising-global.com/products/rising-pc-doctor.html

      Enjoy!!

    • Murphy

      Hi,
      Thank you . Another good article .
      Best regards !

    • http://www.visualexif.com/blog M S

      that’s interesting..they blankly lie about their update server…how wrong. Seems they are going to have to come up with better reasons to upgrade to paid.

    • http://yourliveblog.blogspot.com naveen

      Few of my friends have tried this Antivirus, but they switched back to their old Antivirus.

      Anyway nice explanation

    • Chris

      I recently switched from Rising to Avira free, but I think there’s 5 differences.

      The fifth (at least, in the 2009 version of the paid version) has the option under ‘Tools’ to create an installer. This would be especially useful if you wanted to do a complete install and don’t want to re-download all updates. The installer packages it all up, including definitions etc, into a simple installer. Quite a clever idea I think. Would be good to see a similar version of Windows instead of using nLite.

    • John

      I tested Rising Sun out several months ago. I found that it did not detect the test virus file any where near the time of Avir did.

    • Joe

      Why do you think this antivirus is good? There should be a reason.

    • Alfredo

      Rising is a “so-so” antivirus. It may be a great chinese virus catcher, but is slow when updating defs for western viruses and trojans.

      Thanks for the info Raymond!

    • Duc

      I using Pctools 2010

    • Diddly

      I tried Rising Sun anti virus on Vista Home Premium, did not find it to my liking,,,,tried uinstalling the program and it gave me grief….it reconfigured my network access, it damaged/corrupted files in my system – side bar no longer worked/ displayed objects/tools – could not download updates, these are the ones I discovered immediately after the uninstall…who know what else it have done… I have had to use windows restore – from within logon but this was unsuccessful, then I tried to restore from boot…more successful but the program now somehow imbedded itself into the system….trying all manner of ways to remove this program without it affecting the rest of my system….I came to this review site hoping to find a solution.
      Hope this is considered by unwary users of this software.

      I will stick with Avast.

    • http://rising2010 jeanluc kempfer

      Salut comme ancien client avira premium, avast,avg, etc.. j’ai monter rising 2010 gratos ?PC docteur rising ,et RS detect meme famille honétement sa marche au poil rien ne passe les mise à jours au top avec mon parefeu outpost pro super et bien et fait controle avec plusieur logiciel connue rien ,propre et pas de pup de mise à jour ou autre super donc pour les gens qui on certain doute regarde le test récent de peg super ok .ciao

    • Taho

      I definitely recommend this Anti-Virus. One of the best if not the best!
      I put it to scan my 1TB usb Hard-disk,and here’s the results..

      Files scanned: 157758
      Viruses found: 46
      Suspicious files: 0
      1 hours 19 minutes 16 seconds elapsed.
      …

      *43* of the “viruses” were false positives,the 3 rootkits it reported were correct.
      I didn’t change the default scanning options,I guess if
      i tweaked the scanning “sensitivy” down a bit,it wouldn’t give that many false positives.

      Raymond you should definitely review the latest Rising Antivirus 2010 and post an article about it in here.

      Cheers,
      Tony

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