Slower is better than unprotected. Even professionals can get and have in the past got infected. Like the article states, not having protection is too risky in today’s age.

You can be a careful user – but what happens if a well known and popular website ends up getting hacked and starts infecting visitors, as it would have been classed as safe until then no one will suspect anything should be wrong. Then as the article mentioned there’s bugs, security holes etc. inside the os itself and other software e.g browsers.

I also recommend regularly running manual scans and checking settings on your security programs. A lot do a lot of stuff automatically these days that most people just leave them alone but it’s good to check things manually occasionally.

To “Ego” or EMSISOFT:

Please tell more about those “telemetry updates to Windows 7” that “Ego” says causes 7 to “send every button that you press to Microsoft”. Please also tell if there is a way to deactivate those “telemetry updates”.

Drupal has its own vulnerabilities, including, “elevated permissions to inject malicious code” (USCERT). You might as well use ‘Try & Decide’ and run it when you close down your systems if you’re that concerned. Technician 701/Anti-encryption.

As I was looking at the VirusBulletin site, I saw that awards were given to anti-virus programmes which are not as effective as Emsisoft, some being in the ‘not worth having’ category in my opinion, especially those from the ‘freebies’ Internet shops.

Also to be noted is that a POPULAR anti-malware programme is promoted and recommended as ‘the best’, in many technical forums, also in various articles and newsletters, but that particular programme was found to be by-passing at least two well-known insidious tool-bars, and who knows how many more, plus not discovering many PUP’s in the past.

This is from personal experience with problems before I discovered Emsisoft, and I can guarantee from that experience that many nasties hide inside, remain there no matter how much ‘cleaning’ is undertaken and continue to ‘call home’.

I have recommended Emsisoft to family, friends and clients, but with some people the problems they have will remain because they can’t be convinced that ‘freeware programmes will never solve all their computer problems’.

Vielen Dank für die anhaltende große Emsisoft Computerschutz.

Moreover, its a partnership with another paid software vendor. You normally have to buy the product for $39.95. It’s also not offered to you during the installation process and sneaks onto your computer unknowingly but rather an optional temporarily promotion that we offer during checkout. We check partnerships like this for compliance to our standards as well (e.g. to make sure that they don’t install PUPs, privacy etc).

Haha, well, you are in luck: we would never bundle a PUP. Ever.

As for our latest offer: all you get is an access code for the promoted product. You still have to manually download the installation file and install the software. Also, you can decline even the delivery of the free license in our shopping cart before checkout, if you want to make clear that to you it is a DUP (definitely unwanted program) and not a PUP ;)