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Emsisoft AntiMalware 2018 vs Ransomwares
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<blockquote data-quote="illumination" data-source="post: 720063"><p>[spoiler=Quotes from Emsisoft]-Emsisoft Anti-Malware has always had an application filter as part of its Behavior Blocker and that will continue to be true. The difference between the outbound firewall in Emsisoft Anti-Malware and Emsisoft Internet Security is that the former makes decisions autonomously, while the later, at least in theory, allowed you to also use your manual rules. In practice, the default for Emsisoft Internet Security was to automatically allow all outbound connections and the majority of all our users never changed it.</p><p></p><p>-Intelligent outbound firewall: The outbound firewall part of the Windows Firewall will by default allow every application to connect. This behaviour is actually identical with Emsisoft Internet Security, which also allowed any application to connect to the network or the internet unhindered by default. While both products can be manually configured to block programs from accessing the internet, most users don’t want to deal with this responsibility. This is where the <u><strong>intelligent outbound firewall that is part of our Behavior Blocker comes in</strong></u>, which will prevent malicious applications from communicating with the internet automatically while not getting in the way of benign applications.</p><p></p><p>-Windows Firewall Fortification: The functions Windows Firewall provides to software vendors to automatically create rules for their applications in the Windows Firewall for ease of use are also pretty much unprotected. That means that malware can and does create rules for itself automatically. In version 2017.8, we extended our Behavior Blocker technology to protect the exposed Windows Firewall functions from malicious usage. This gives you control over which of your applications are allowed to create Windows Firewall rules for you and which aren’t. This is what we refer to as “Windows Firewall Fortification”.[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>That protection is supposedly still in place, just administered differently. As to how effective it is, i could not state, as i have never tested it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="illumination, post: 720063"] [spoiler=Quotes from Emsisoft]-Emsisoft Anti-Malware has always had an application filter as part of its Behavior Blocker and that will continue to be true. The difference between the outbound firewall in Emsisoft Anti-Malware and Emsisoft Internet Security is that the former makes decisions autonomously, while the later, at least in theory, allowed you to also use your manual rules. In practice, the default for Emsisoft Internet Security was to automatically allow all outbound connections and the majority of all our users never changed it. -Intelligent outbound firewall: The outbound firewall part of the Windows Firewall will by default allow every application to connect. This behaviour is actually identical with Emsisoft Internet Security, which also allowed any application to connect to the network or the internet unhindered by default. While both products can be manually configured to block programs from accessing the internet, most users don’t want to deal with this responsibility. This is where the [U][B]intelligent outbound firewall that is part of our Behavior Blocker comes in[/B][/U], which will prevent malicious applications from communicating with the internet automatically while not getting in the way of benign applications. -Windows Firewall Fortification: The functions Windows Firewall provides to software vendors to automatically create rules for their applications in the Windows Firewall for ease of use are also pretty much unprotected. That means that malware can and does create rules for itself automatically. In version 2017.8, we extended our Behavior Blocker technology to protect the exposed Windows Firewall functions from malicious usage. This gives you control over which of your applications are allowed to create Windows Firewall rules for you and which aren’t. This is what we refer to as “Windows Firewall Fortification”.[/spoiler] That protection is supposedly still in place, just administered differently. As to how effective it is, i could not state, as i have never tested it. [/QUOTE]
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