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 »
We’ve been warning you about IncrediMail’s incredible trip on the slippery slope into the realm of malware, adware, and spyware. And we’ve taken a lot of heat for it, because several years ago we did recommend IncrediMail when it was owned by a different company and had not yet started it’s free fall into dark side. If any… Read More »
There seems to be a general belief that the term malware, means malicious software, but that is not true. The prefix “mal” is not an abbreviation for malicious, it is a prefix meaning bad. There are a lot of words beginning with this prefix: malcontent, maladjusted, malevolent, malfunction. So when we use the term malware we mean, literally… Read More »
We’ve recently become aware that Malwarebytes no longer detects at least two of the most ubiquitous malware products (politely known to us as PUPs — Potentially Unwanted Programs), those two being Ask Toolbar and Conduit. We’re not saying there’s anything wrong with Malwarebytes, we still recommend it. We’re just concerned that this may become a slippery slope. Malwarebytes… Read More »
We are seeing a disturbing trend. We’ll clean the malware from a computer and a few months later, the same person is back with more malware. And many of them will ask us where they got it. They’ll also tell us they have X, Y, and Z security programs installed. We cannot stress enough that you cannot depend… Read More »