Zillya! Total Security Review

Having a PC connected to the internet or network means it is vulnerable to system threats. The way to prevent these from costing you time and money is to have effective protection. This means installing and running a good antivirus program. In this post, we review Zillya! Total Security for the PC.

About Zillya! Antivirus

Zillya Antivirus is an antivirus company that was founded in Ukraine in 2009. Since then, they have provided cybersecurity products for homes and businesses. They have an independently developed antivirus engine they use in their products, which they sell in more than 15 countries.

Their products focus on:

Simplicity and convenience
Accessibility
Ease-of Use
Continuous updates and improvements

They provide support for both end-users and technology developers.

About Zillya! Total Security

Total Security provides security for PC’s and offers the following protections:

Antivirus
Anti-spyware
Anti-Trojan
Anti-malware
Anti-phishing
Firewall
WEB-filter
Site-blocking
Parental Control
Privacy Protection
File Shredder
And more…

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GUI / Interface

Zillya Total Security Main Program Window

Zillya! Total Security has a main program window with the following central selections:

Quick Scan
Optimizer
System Status
Firewall
Parental Control
USB Protection
Settings
Internet Protection
Virtual Keyboard
Scheduler
Mail-filter
Support

Many of these can be found in other sections of the program by clicking on individual option windows.

The main program window also has a left side drop-down menu. This has the following selection headings:

Scanning
Antivirus Protection
Net Protection
Tools
Maintenance
Support

Scanning

This main menu option will state the last scan by date. Clicking on this item will bring up the following:

Quick Scan
Full Scan
Custom Scan

Quick Scan

This will run a Quick Scan. There is also a Scheduler option you can choose.

Full Scan

This will start a Full Scan. A Scheduler option is also available.

Custom Scan

This brings up the Custom Scan window. Here you can select the files and folders for scanning. The drives by letter or name are listed. Clicking on the left arrow next to the drive name will bring up the sub files and folders. Select which one(s) you want scanned by clicking the left checkbox next to the name(s). This scan type can be the shortest of the three to run, depending on which folders are chosen for scanning.

For each scan type, click “Start” to run a scan, “Stop” to pause the scan, “Continue” to continue the scan, and “Finish” to end the scan. Once the scan is finished, a report of Number of scanned objects and Detected Threats will be presented. Click “Close the Report” to close the scan report.

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Optimizer

This selection will bring up the System Optimizer. There will be a last optimization time and the ability to run a new one by clicking “Run”.

This window also has a left side menu with the following:

Optimizer
File Eraser
Virtual Keyboard
Scheduler
Parental Control
Autorun Manager
Process Manager
Data Privacy

System is Protected

This brings up the following left menu selections:

System Status
About Program
Support
License

System Status

This menu choice shows the license type, antivirus database version, program modules version, and time of the last scan that was run.

About Program

This shows the time since installing the program and version. There is also a Reports button you can click to see a log of all past events including:

Updates
Scans
Threats
USB-Protection
Mail-filter

Support

This shows a feedback form you can send a description of an issue you are having. There is a send file option included. There is also a email address and phone number you can use to contact the Zillya team.

License

This shows the type of program license and number of days left until it expires. If you are using the trial version, there is a “Buy New” button to get the full version. If you have paid for the program, there is also an “Activate” button to enter your product license key.

Zillya! Firewall

This main menu selection brings up the following:

Firewall
Internet Protection
Mail Protection
Antispam

Firewall

Here you can choose to turn On / Off the following:

Complex Network Protection
Rules for applications
General rules of connections
System Rules

There is also a wrench icon next to each selection to open a further detailed window.

These include allowing, blocking, or ignoring certain applications.

Internet Protection

This window shows On / Off tabs for anti-phishing and web-filtering. You can also turn on or off complex protection in the internet.

Mail Protection

Here you can turn On / Off the mail-filter.

Antispam

This window has an On / Off tab for protecting your system from spam messages.

Zillya! Parental Control

This window allows for creating a password to protect your system settings from any tampering by another user.

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USB protection

This main menu window has an On / Off tab for scanning USB connected devices including memory sticks.

There is a list of these USB connections presented. Once connected, a small window will appear in the lower right of your Windows screen asking to scan or take another action on the connected USB device. You can also block, scan, or open the USB device window here.

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Settings

This brings up a window that shows the following choices:

Quick Settings
General Settings
Other options

Quick Settings

This shows the following:

Level of protection – minimum, average, maximum, user-defined by clicking a circle for each.
Notification mode – quiet, recommended, detailed, interactive, and user-defined
Network protection – inactive, recommended, maximum, and user-defined.

These are all set to average and recommended by default.

General Settings

Here there is the option of saving a report about system events for a user-selected number of days.

Download antivirus at system startup
Download antivirus with full database
Updating antivirus
Game mode
Using a proxy server

There is also a drop-down menu for language selections in Russian, English, French, Chinese, and Ukrainian.

Zillya! Total Security Internet Protection

Zillya Total Security Review Internet Protection

This main menu option opens up On / Off tabs for the following:

Complex protection in the internet
Antiphishing
Web-filter

Virtual Keyboard

This main menu option will open up the virtual keyboard window. Click “Run” to run the virtual keyboard. To use this, just click the mouse pad on any letter you want to type into a document.

Scheduler

This window allows for creating a scheduled task with name, type, time periods, start time, and start date.

Mail Filter

This has an On / Off tab for mail-filtering. There will also be shown a list of emails that were checked by the antivirus program.

Support

This provides a feedback form to submit a detailed description of an issue you have. This includes a send file option. There is also an email address and phone number for the Zillya team.

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Zillya! System Requirements

Processor: 1 GHz or higher
RAM: 1 GB or higher
Hard Disk Space: 450 MB
Operating System: Windows XP (SP3), Windows 7 (x32, x64) (SP1), Windows 8.1 (x32, x64), Windows 10 (x32, x 64).
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768 or higher

Our Zillya! Total Security Test

We tested Zillya! Total Security using our standard mid-range antivirus test PC with the following specifications:

Desktop PC Model: HP Pavilion 595
Processor: 8th generation Intel Core I5-8400
RAM: 12 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM Memory
Hard Drive: 1 TB 7200 RPM HD, 128 GB PCIe Solid State Drive
Video Card: Intel UHD Graphics 630
Operating System: Windows 10
Software: Microsoft Office, Google Chrome, included pre-installed software on the system.
File types: xls, txt, doc, mp3, mp4, jpeg, jpg, bmp, png, pdf, docx, exe, wav, wma, bat.
Average file size: 4.4 MB

Zillya! Total Security Test Scan Performance

A Quick scan took 12 minutes and 16 seconds.

Total objects scanned: 23,839

A Full Scan took 2 hours and 29 minutes.

Total objects scanned: 450,581

A Custom scan on only the documents folder took 6 seconds.

Total files scanned: 103

PROS of Zillya! Total Security

Zillya! Total Security is easy to navigate with a very clear user interface.
There are a large number of options available for users to customize. This makes the program a broad and useful antivirus protection tool.

CONS of Zillya! Total Security

Zillya! Total Security has slow scans. Even the Quick scan is somewhat slow. This could mean that it is doing a very thorough job, but it does not go as fast as Webroot Internet Security Plus.
Menu items are linked in a way as to be somewhat unclear as to their function and location in the overall program. Clicking on one button can take you to another menu that shows items that are listed in some other menu. This can be confusing.