Review of Coranti 2010 Multi-Core Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware

The install process of Coranti is straight-forward. A reboot is not required to start protecting the PC from any types of malware activity.  It does not disable Windows Defender, which is the built-in antispyware in Vista and Windows 7. There are two options to install Coranti AV & AS:

• Complete install - All of the components will be installed and these are the control center, real-time and on-demand scanners for antivirus and anti-spyware, e-mail scanner for widely used e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, The Bat, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail, a shell extension to scan a file, folder or any visible path in Windows from Windows Explorer context menu, and a scheduler to perform a scheduled scan or product updates.
• Custom install - An option to individually install any of the above components that a complete installation will perform. This is a good option for end-users who don't want or need an e-mail scanner.

Coranti AV & AS is not compatible with Windows Security Center. It reports its status to the Windows Security Center but uses a format that is no longer supported in Windows. The vendor was informed about the problem. It does not affect the functionality of the antivirus program but for end-users who wonder why the Windows Security Center is not "green", expect an update from Coranti in the future. Coranti uses 627MB of hard-disk space which is a huge amount of space and runs on 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows operating systems, including Windows servers.

After the install process of Coranti, the product automatically checks for product and definitions update which you can cancel or send to the background. A full system scan dialog box will be displayed after the update which is recommended since the default action for any detected threats or suspicious files is to ask the user. This option can be changed in the preferences of the program.

 Coranti's main user interface is simple which means you won't have to dig around in order to find the available options for the program. The screenshot at the left displays the simple to use option and easy to understand functions or menus. You have the option to change the way you want to view the user interface, which I really like. You can have the menu in the side-bar or on top as a toolbar menu.

The default options or settings in Coranti are actually OK but I would rather see the antivirus program automatically handle a threat by sending it to the quarantine or terminating the malware process before sending to quarantine. By default, Coranti only blocks and reports the malicious activity. An end-user of Coranti has the option to disinfect then delete, to block if it cannot delete, or to quarantine. Below are the other options for using Coranti which as you can see, an option to adjust the levels of scanning, heuristic and depth scanning. Also there is an option to adjust the level of scanning archived files and how to handle any macro infections: 

Note that the above options are for the antivirus scanner to use and are the same available options for antivirus real-time protection settings. You may include or exclude paths or files to monitor and scan in real-time or during an on-demand scan. The anti-spyware scanner in Coranti uses the Lavasoft anti-spyware scanner to ask the user for actions which is something I recommend you change by selecting "Terminate process" or "Terminate and quarantine". All settings are applied whether you have BitDefender, F-Prot or Norman scan engines enabled or only one or two antivirus programs enabled or in use. See also the BitDefender review by Ryan Tetzlaff or Lavasoft spyware remover review by yours truly.