OPSWAT – Free Security Evaluation Tool

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Opswat is a small .exe tool which does not install on your system and operates as an “as needed” app. It was developed by Bobby Czarny who owns “Opswat”, a San Francisco based company.

It evaluates the general security of your computer, but in my examination, it fell a bit short. It also does a tolerable amount of self promotion.

After downloading and initiating the tool, which collects anonymous data from your system about app usage, it generates a report for you which breaks your security down to various areas.

General report:

I stopped using Opera some time ago, so I uninstalled it and cleaned the registry (after making a backup of it).

Ooops… this is true. So I remedied that sad state of affairs. Noteworthy is the fact that Bitdefender told me that by itself.

IE 9, that is. You can only download this with IE, btw. Also, since about 43% of the market doesn’t use IE, it would have been more useful if the tool evaluated more than just IE.

Sorry, Opswat. You were wrong about this parameter as the screenshot clearly shows.  Mr. Czerny, this will require some more refining I believe.

As for the disc encryption? The tool is correct. My system would be more secure with it. I don’t know however, if Stardock’s apps play nicely with those, and which of those.

So, in general, it’s an ok tool if you intend to use the report to better your security (which I did). Bear in mind that it’s not perfect as my screenshot relating to anti-phishing shows.

Download:  http://www.opswat.com/products/security-score

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks Doc. I will take a look at this. For checking your internet security, I've found this site does a fine job.

ShieldsUP!

Thanks to Fuzzy for the original link.  :thumbsup:

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

According to Fuzzy's link, I'm snug as a bug in a rug. :)

Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I had been looking for something similar to a health check and came across this. My gf's computer has bitdefender and everything appears to be working, I'm not sure if a new version came out since this post but it caught a few things. 

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Tried out Opswat...scored 94 ...let down by disk encryption...;)

Shields Up was a pass [as usual]...;)

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Scored a 95 here, disk encryption also. :)

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

tried it, but scored only 83, and it claimed that I was using lavasoft adaware antivirus(do not have ANY lavasoft software installed), it missed my additional antispyware tools like spybot search & destroy, malware bytes antimalware, io-bits malware fighter, advanced system care, the firewall and the avast antivirus(free) (which is also set to maximum sensitivity and delete all pup/suspicious/virus/trojan/rootkit/malware that it finds), and old faithful shields up still gives me  a perfect score of all green for internet attackability.

harpo

 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A score of 82....last full system scan was a week ago according to this. Easily corrected.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Jim:

As I pointed out, there are detection problems in OPSWAT:

Sorry, Opswat. You were wrong about this parameter as the screenshot clearly shows.
End of quote

 

I'd bet it detects only certain settings in certain software... it is not universal, which is why I pointed out this software has deficits. It's detection might be hampered by code in the program it's scanning due to the scanned program's own security features.

Whenever a program (no matter which program) reports something - whether positive or negative, the user has a choice: To believe or to check whether true or not. There's no perfect program.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 9
Jim:
As I pointed out, there are detection problems in OPSWAT:
End of DrJBHL's quote

Merely agreeing with you, Doc, Merely pointing to more evidence of the same.

 

With more development, this would be a good tool.