First, we want to thank all of you for your amazing welcome to our newest Cloudeight recommended and endorsed product: Emsisoft Anti-Malware. It’s a great program and we’re positive that most of you will benefit greatly from it in the form of reduced malware infections and more effective antivirus protection. It’s been a couple of weeks now since… Read More »
We have been warning you about software bundles (which Emsisoft calls “download wrappers”) for a long time. The following information comes from Emsisoft’s helpful Anti-Malware web site, and we’d like to share it with you, because it give you information you can use to avoid sites which distribute software via bundlers (or “Download wrappers). These are all popular… Read More »
Dianne says beware of Downloads.com (CNET) Beware of downloads.com-when I tried to download Musicbee I managed to stop RealPlayer and thought I had stopped Sweet Packs browser helper / Perion Network. I didn’t. I had it in IE10 and Firefox. It hijacked my homepage–yours–and added a updater and a couple of other things. You will find pieces in… Read More »
After a couple of weeks of testing every anti-malware program we could find, we looked at Emsisoft Anti-Malware last. The only word I can used to describe our reaction when we intentionally went to malware sites, intentionally clicked on download links we knew were ads, and intentionally installing software we knew was bundled with malware, and Emsisoft Anti-Malware… Read More »
After weeks of testing many free and commercial anti-malware programs, and after communicating back and forth with Emsisoft, we’re very pleased to tell you that our number pick for anti-malware protection and detection is Emsisoft Anti-Malware… and we have no doubt at all about our decision. We know it’s the right one for you and for us. We’ve… Read More »
Today we are officially suspending our recommendation of Malwarebytes as the best utility to remove malware from your computer. While it is still a good tool to remove serious Trojans from your computer, there are better trojan removers, and better rootkit removers. Malwarebytes value, in our opinion was its ability to detect and remove the most commonly found… Read More »