A New Villain In Town His name is Poweliks (or her name is Poweliks, if you prefer). And while Poweliks has been around since last summer we hadn’t seen any cases of it, until this week when we saw three in one day. Now the reason that Poweliks deserves mention here (there are always dozens of new black… Read More »
MOST NOW FEAR THEIR LIVES ARE OPEN BOOK For a long time, people thought: ‘Well, I have nothing to hide,’ one expert said. But we do have things we want to hide, she said, whether it’s credit card information or info about our families SAN FRANCISCO – Americans overwhelmingly think they’ve lost control of how their personal information… Read More »
Emsisoft Wins Again If you’re one of those who think that the most dangerous threats to your computer are viruses, you’re wrong. The chances you’ll encounter a virus are 100 times less likely than you are to encounter malware. And the good news is: If all you are concerned about are viruses, just about any old antivirus will… Read More »
Nothing to Hide “Everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey” (John Lennon) We live in an age where just about everything we do, say, write, read, buy or sell is subject to various invasions of your right to privacy. There are those who continually say, “I have nothing to hide. Only those who have something… Read More »
We were recently bombarded with email from Avast users because suddenly, without warning, Avast detected Cloudeight CalenderPal as being infected with the virus: Win32:Evo-gen. Avast is well-known for its high rate of false-positives. A false-positive is a harmless file detected as a malicious file. If an antivirus cannot differentiate a bad, malicious file from a good, safe file, then… Read More »
Jack says Avast does a great job protecting his computer and we only recommend Emsisoft because we are greedy! I have been using Avast for years – free version. You claim you tested a lot of antivirus programs before you decided to endorse Emsisoft. Yet, in all the years I’ve had Avast, I’ve never had a bit of… Read More »