In the ever-changing world of online communication, there are new threats every day, so a simple antivirus is not enough. This program allows you to scan your computer in search of potential malware. It also keeps an eye on your web activity to detect suspicious events.
The program has a neat and easy-to-use interface. After installing it, you only need to click on the Scan computer option so the program can explore your system in search of potentially damaging programs or files. Before starting, it will download any update it may need so it can detect even the most recent malware. The speed of the scan will depend on the size of your hard drive and on the speed of your processor, but in general, it has a good speed.
The program will show you the results of its scan and you can choose to clean all the detected files or select any of them that you want to keep for whatever reason.
The drawbacks I found were that, since it is permanently active, it made my Internet connection, and my system in general, slower. Some pages took a long time to open, while others didn't open at all. Also, the program is subscription-based, which means that you need to pay an annual fee to keep using the program.
You can try the shareware version for 30 days. If you like it and want to use it longer, you will need to purchase a license.
v3.0 [Dec 3, 2014]
- Added ability to protect custom applications against vulnerability attacks. Users can now use the ‘Running applications’ dialog under ‘Exploit mitigations’, which offers a user-friendly overview of the running applications and the ability to choose and protect applications against vulnerability attacks.
- Added automatic exploit protection for 'Skype for Windows desktop'.
- Added automatic detection of media applications to the built-in software radar. This means that applications that can open music or video files are automatically protected against exploit attacks (e.g. Windows Media Player, VLC media player, etc.)
- Added a notification and ability to restart an application when the user updated its exploit mitigation settings.
- Added ability to remove exploit mitigations from configured applications.
- Added tray icon to summon the main user interface, scan the computer or check for updates.
- Improved detection of uninstalled applications so that they are no longer listed under ‘Your web browsers’ or ‘Your applications’.
- Improved the software radar to also detect 64-bit applications with 32-bit registrations; e.g. WordPad on 64-bit Windows is now correctly recognized.
- Improved detection and blocking of malware downloads initiated from attacker-controlled memory.
- Improved support for the Opera web browser, including Opera Next and Opera Developer.
- Improved compatibility of ‘Active vaccination’ with installed applications.
- Enabled the checkbox to ‘Perform malware scan after installation’ on the Install dialog.
- Solved input lag that occurred in games like Battlefield 4.
- Solved compatibility issue with some 64-bit security software, like Emsisoft Anti-Malware.
- Many small fixes and improvements.
