It ignored my main email, no response, just sat there, it responded to my secondary email saying it was already in use, it accepted a tertiary email, and turned on a 1-year trial license.
These all-purpose anti malware software programs we’ve been reviewing recently seem to be confirming that I have a clean machine, clean because I practice clean behaviors.
Sadly, they all find stuff that is not a risk, such as Auslogics, Nirsoft, and other tools, as if saying “… OMG the chef has a knife? …”.
Luckily I can toggle [ Ignore all ] and then scroll ( endlessly ) to find the one or two items I might prefer to kill, this found 2 web addresses in my host registry entry, prior anti malware identified Google Chrome extensions that were already turned off, that were already uninstalled, but debris was left over in directories, and even after being identified, I had to remove them by hand because the anti malware program could not touch Google extensions, but only identify them, and not even block subsequent re-installation.
What’s the point of a program that says, “… ouch, you got a bullet hole there, that must hurt …” instead of acting like a bullet-proof jacket and protect me in the first place?
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So, what do I do that keeps my systems clean?
I do not respond to any transaction that I did not initiate, that is, I do not click on any email or announcement or pop up, instead, independently, I open my own browser and web-search for the contact I want to pursue, and make the contact myself, so, for example, I’ll find Amazon’s 800-number, I will not call an Amazon number presented in an unsolicited email.
I browse with ad blockers AdBlock Plus and Ghostery, and I keep them manually tuned.
I keep my browsers updated, and I keep them manually tuned, also.
I try different browsers whenever anything misbehaves to confirm if I have found a bad website or a browser glitch – Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE ( yeah, for emergency compatibility on rare occasion ), and Tor Browser.
I scan anything that I downloaded by opening [ VirusTotal. com ], and then I decide for myself if I trust the results of a scan there.
I run AdwCleaner and JRT Junk Removal Tool ( yeah, it’s getting old ) SuperAntiSpyware and Spybot Search & Destroy ( I like v1, not v2 ) and similar programs on occasion ( Malwarebytes is no longer trustworthy in that it finds mostly legitimate software from other vendors, and, similar to Symantec Norton and Intel McAfee, they all have sat back and did nothing while a customer computer got taken over by phishing, and yet these programs slow the computer down, and they keep asking for the customer’s credit card nonetheless ), but I do not have ANY memory-resident anti malware.
So, thanks for the opportunity to explore this software, but it’s not telling me anything I don’t already know, especially from the free alternatives, and it’s not offering any powers that are unique and special.
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