The following article was recently posted on the Emsisoft blog. It’s an excellent malware primer that can help take some of the confusion out of understanding the different kinds of malware that lurk around every corner of the Web. We’ve edited the article slightly. We thank the Emsisoft team for allowing us to share this with you. The… Read More »
Beware – This Real Looking Flash Player Update Is MALWARE This malware/rogue has been around for a couple of years now. It faded away and is now back in full vigor. If you see this, then you could be in big trouble: It looks real but it is not. I was reading an article on Reuters and suddenly this… Read More »
Ransomware is Everywhere: You’ll Want to Bookmark This Page Ransomware is a special kind of malware that locks most of your personal files so you can’t use them or even view them until you pay a ransom to the criminal who created the malware. Until now, there was very little you could to save all your precious personal… Read More »
Emsisoft has won another award! Three years ago, when Microsoft Security Essentials failed to pass most independent antivirus tests, we started looking for something that would keep our users safe. We tested AVG and Avast and found not only were they lacking in protecting users from malware and PUPs, but has started hijacking users’ browsers and sometimes even… Read More »
Microsoft Plays Games With Silverlight To play certain videos, like Netflix and videos on Microsoft’s site, you’ll need to install Microsoft Silverlight. And we’ve hammered Sun (Java) and Adobe (Flash Player) for trying to sneak software unto people’s computers or hijack their search engine and/or browser Start page. It’s bad enough that Sun Java and Adobe Flash Player… Read More »
Emsisoft – You’ve Done it Again! Several years ago, we stopped recommending MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials / Windows Defender) because of its poor ratings and because of its poor protection. And this was about the same time as Malwarebytes stopped detecting a lot of the PUPs it once detected and removed. So we were on a mission to… Read More »