Comments on: Has the antivirus industry gone mad? https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/ Straight-talking security advice from the Malware Experts Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:15:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alice Snafu https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-788322 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:40:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-788322 In reply to DaveC..

Hmm. On 13th August Redirect Detective encountered a problem with the partially obscured URL which DaveC provides! A 28 month old article is not a good place to recruit people to email Redirect Detective and ask them to post their report here. Perhaps Emsisoft will be able to coax them to post their information here?

Enter the URL below
http :// disq .us/url?url=http %3A%2F%2Fbotcrawl .com%2Fremove-360-safe-virus%2F%3AFVkxrVwS5Ge92XV5QllKG5FYOLU&cuid=2706861

http :// disq .us/url?url=http %3A%2F%2Fbotcrawl .com%2Fremove-360-safe-virus%2F%3AFVkxrVwS5Ge92XV5QllKG5FYOLU&cuid=2706861

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An unknown error or HTTP state has occured. This will be investigated.

Redirect Detective – A Free Tool To Trace Where Redirects End Up
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]]> By: Strazdas https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-787138 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:24:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-787138 In reply to Mariska.

If you are installing something and cannot even read what the checkbox in the installer says then no amount of protection is going to help you against PUPs.

]]> By: Edwin D Ferretti III https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-785055 Sun, 16 Apr 2017 04:59:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-785055 In reply to lazarus.

Malwarebytes has partnered with ADW, the anti adware program. I have the paid version of Emsisoft and love it. I admit, that when I run the standalone version of ADW it finds PUPs not picked up by Emsisoft. However, Emsisoft finds another type of PUP called PUM, something that I am going to research.

]]> By: Harshit Gupta https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-785004 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:22:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-785004 I do believe that keeping an antivirus software always keep your computer system. I am using Windows 7 operating system and looking for best antivirus for Windows 7.

]]> By: ACRT https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-783423 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:56:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-783423 I use both Comodo Free Firewall and Avast Free A/V and while they do have some stuff you have to uncheck to keep from being installed on your computer, they list that very clearly and it’s easy to uncheck those things. For them to give me to very good programs that protect my system for free, it’s worth taking the extra time to make sure I uncheck everything I don’t want. When and if that changes and they start hiding things or making it very hard to find the settings to uncheck these things, well, then it will be time find some one else.

]]> By: Harshit Gupta https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-781627 Sat, 05 Nov 2016 11:04:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-781627 I do believe that free antivirus software doesn’t come with full functionality. That’s why I recommend use of paid antivirus software only.

]]> By: IcratoX https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-710095 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 18:05:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-710095 A handy way to have these offers unchecked by default is by using a little program called ‘unchecky’. As seen above some of these PUPs could almost be seen as malware, and people too easily read over those extra pages in an installer and just click ‘next’. I’ve had it running for a while, and it is quite thorough. It certainly helped keeping PUP installs to a minimum for people that are less tech savvy as well.

]]> By: Laser_Beam https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-709953 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 16:30:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-709953 The users themselves are equally to blame. Blindly pressing ‘Next’ is what created this mess in the first place.

]]> By: Jennifer Martin https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-689153 Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:23:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-689153 I do believe an antivirus software should be more than antivirus. Now a days antivirus are supporting data recovery software as well. I have recently used Protegent 360 complete security software.

]]> By: Benny https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-637883 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:33:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-637883 Aviras SafeSearch is no longer using white labeled Ask toolbar but Yahoo instead. The reason why the Antivirus industry is doing this is because they need to monetize indirectly, as nobody wants to spend money on his/her protection…

]]> By: Ayush Singh https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-501873 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:56:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-501873 Use bitdefender free. It is best.

]]> By: builder7 https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11550/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/#comment-466831 Sun, 09 Aug 2015 17:50:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11550#comment-466831 Maybe these free programs need to be downloaded from the company that made them.

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