SpeedBit Team Blog

I wish I could start this post with a drum roll. There are so many more things we want to do with SpeedBit Video Accelerator, that every beta release is like a small step forword. We managed to eliminate many “false positive” detections by security apps. Also solved some issues with the “recently accelerated” list, and improved the Vista support.

We really hope this version is going to take us foreward. Of course, as ever, we would highly appreciate your feedback and comments, so we can nip out all the bugs and quirks. Especially since SpeedBit Video Accelerator supports over 50 video sites in this version, we need as much people as possible just watching videos, so we can see how well it works, what can we improve even more, and what other sites we should think about adding.

You can just leave your comment here, or you can contact our support. In any case, any information form you, would be invaluable to us.

Davidi,
SpeedBit Video Accelerator Team

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Working on an application like SpeedBit Video Accelerator, is ever-exciting.
Here’s my wish-list for this week:

I’m pondering over the last item, over the weekend…
Basically it means that some security applications, mainly antiviruses, are falsely detecting SpeedBit Video Accelerator (it is 100% spyware free), as a positive case of a “suspicious application”.

This happens mostly since it’s a hard work for security companies to keep track of all the new software out there. Especially internet applications, as they tinker with the connection between your browser and the web. In order to be efficient, Antiviruses are strict by nature. They’d rather block an unfamiliar internet app, than let it enjoy the benefit of the doubt. Reasonable enough.

Our problem, of course, is that many users will take the word of their security app, over our “spyware free” assurances.
What do you do then?

Well, some security applications approved us without us having to do a thing. Especially with the rapid growth of SpeedBit Video Accelerator, it didn’t remain an “unfamiliar internet application” very long. Hey, security programers watch internet videos too, right?
Other apps we have to approach by ourselves. Right now, we are down to four:
Kasperskey, Nod32, Avast! and DrWeb, all good programs by the way, in my opinion.

For each application, the process of submitting a “false positive” request is different. I won’t bore you with bureaucracy, but it’s mostly painstaking work of zipping the right files and naming them correctly and then submitting the correct case number on the required field, etc.

The good news is, I already heard back from DrWeb, and they assured us we’ll be on the “OK” list on their next update. So hopefully, by the time you read this, your DrWeb antivirus will clear us - no problem

If you are using one of the other security antiviruses and needs some more re-assurance, I recommend downloading a free trial version of another security software (you can find a whole bunch of them here), and see for yourself.

Davidi,
Speedbit Video Accelerator Team

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