Emsisoft Anti-Malware 6.0.0.40

Emsisoft Anti-Malware protects your PC from malware-based hacker attacks. Its special capabilities in dealing with trojans, worms, dialers and spyware make it an indispensable enhancement to any protection system, whether on a private PC or a company network.

The unique Malware-IDS technology in the background guard provides the first line of defense against individual attacks by highly specialized Trojans that cannot be recognized by signature-based anti-virus software. These types of Trojans are a favorite attacker tool for spying on Online Banking access data and company secrets. The Malware-IDS is also able to block Rootkits effectively.

What's new in Emsisoft Anti-Malware 6?

Scanner:

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.

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