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 »
Don’t Let This Fake Flash Player Update Fool You 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 appeared out of nowhere. This is a fake. It’s not an Adobe Flash Player update at all – it’s malware. This… Read More »
Emsisoft Wins Again We’ve been recommending Emsisoft for quite a while now. After Microsoft Security Essentials started going down hill and Malwarebytes decided to ignore many PUPs, we got busy and started evaluating security products. What we were looking for was not a security suite with all kinds of useless stuff (Spam Blockers, site raters, etc.) but a… Read More »
What are PUPs? PUPs are not things; PUPs is an acronym for Potentially Unwanted Programs. It really should be PUS, Potentially Unwanted Software – but PUS doesn’t sound very nice – though PUS might be closer to what you get when you install PUPs (or malware) on your computer. PUPs are what antivirus/antimalware companies call some malware so… Read More »