Emsisoft Anti-Malware 8.1.0.35 BETA

[Petrovic]

Emsisoft Anti-Malware 8.1.0.35 – with BETA updates enabled:

• Removed Outlook integration as it became obsolete for safety.
• Removed cookie scan as it became obsolete for safety.
• Security Wizard reappearing after completed installation – fixed.
• Enhanced error logging routines.

http://changeblog.emsisoft.com/2014/01/22/beta-updates-2014-01-22/

 

[ifacedown]

But some are still using Outlook. Please explain to me why Outlook integration is now obsolete for safety. Maybe I am not understanding many things. Thanks.

 

[3link9]

Not sure why they removed Outlook and cookie scan, anyone explain? :S

 

[Deleted member 178]

explanation coming soon, i asked to the developpers

 

[woomera]

apparently they removed Outlook plugin to improve performance.

 

[Surtur]

The email plugin does nothing more than to scan e-mail attachments. The same takes over the Emsisoft Anti-Malware File Guard also, at the latest when the email attachment is executed (depending on file guard configuration). Furthermore, the attachment is also considered by the behavior analysis when it is running.

 

[NSG001]

Runs as sweet as ever here

 

[Deleted member 178]

there the explanations from Emsisoft; i like when a vendor remove the bloat/useless features instead of adding some (follow my eyes ^^)

Scanning emails while they are downloaded just shifts the point of detection a little bit back, so there is no real gain for overall protection. The realtime guard would stop any email attachment at the moment it is extraced from the email or started anyways.

Our aim is to provide the most effective protection software with little overhead and with the least possible performance impact. With that strategy in mind, it was a mistake to even create and release those Outlook plugins. In the end they caused more troubles than advantages, since the Outlook API is extremely unreliable and leaves frustrated users if it often crashes.

Additionally we had to realize that today, Outlook via POP3 makes only a minority of the total email users since webmail, other email clients and IMAP protocol became more and more frequent. We can't provide solutions for those because of technical limitations, so it was just logical to drop Outlook support too.