Emsisoft Anti-Malware 6.6
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Author: Emsisoft
Size: 128 MB
License: Freeware
Requires: Win XP/2003/Vista/Windows7
Emsisoft Anti-Malware includes a guard, which recognizes and blocks all dangerous programs before they have a chance to cause any damage. The unique new Emsisoft Anti-Malware Behavior Blocker module immediately warns you when a program attempts to perform a potentially dangerous operation. It does this for every program, including those that may appear harmless at first sight!Features:
- Completely re-written dual scan engine framework for multi-core optimizations.
- 450% speed improvement on average – with the same things being scanned.
- Advanced caching for self optimizing scans – it gets faster with every scan.
- New direct disk access scan mode for better rootkit detection (TDL-3, ZeroAccess, TDL-4, Sinowal).
- Changed scan presets – added Rootkit scan, excluded Cookie scan.
- Improved false positive handling.
- Desired actions to be taken on scan completion can be set before the scan now, too.
- The postfixes of infections were changed to !E1 and !E2.
- New animation during active scans.
- User interface simplifications for better usability.
- Added loading scan engine animation in security setup wizard.
- Missed scheduled scans can optionally be run on next program startup.
Realtime protection:
- Significantly reduced performance impact of the file guard with smart caching.
- Optimizations to strongly speed up the boot process.
- Reduced false positives in real world use due to internal rating system.
- File guard file extensions list can now be reset to defaults.
- Internal and custom host blocker rules can be viewed more conveniently now.
- Re-organized the guard tray icon menu to provide quick access to common features.
Licensing:
- User accounts are no longer required. Switched to a simple key-based system.
- Simplifications in license dialogs.
- New referral rewards program to obtain a full version license for free by referring new users.
- Get 1 month for free by referring another 1 month trial user.
- Get 6 months for free by referring a buying customer.
- New long term customer bonus program – renewals get 5% cheaper every year.
- Improved notification when license is about to expire soon.
- Each license is limited to use on one computer now.
General:
- Settings can now be exported and imported by category.
- Added security prompts to confirm final deletion of files, rules or logs.
- Added newsletter subscription link in news area.
- Improved update system for greater stability of online updates.
- No more use of the registry to store settings – using ini files now.
- Code cleanup and improvements to avoid potential crashes and hangs.
- Simplified the setup process significantly.
- Removed the trojan horse animation.
