Advice Request Emsisoft Antimalware detected FDM as threat

[Xtwillight]

it's all right
F / P message was from Emsi
changed
Software is ok

 

[Evjl's Rain]

just tested out this app
- higher RAM usage than any other download manager: ~70MB
- doesn't fully support slimjet browser. Just IE, FF, chrome
- The website was blocked by hphosts/malwarebytes, classified as malware, malware distributor. Confirmed by hphosts forum admin
- the extension installed on chrome consumed too much CPU when a website was loading. If I opened 20 tabs simultaneously, it consumed up to 8-9% of CPU, much more than eagleget (max 4-5%)

Uninstalled

 

[Azure]

just tested out this app
- higher RAM usage than any other download manager: ~70MB
- doesn't fully support slimjet browser. Just IE, FF, chrome
- The website was blocked by hphosts/malwarebytes, classified as malware, malware distributor. Confirmed by hphosts forum admin
- the extension installed on chrome consumed too much CPU when a website was loading. If I opened 20 tabs simultaneously, it consumed up to 8-9% of CPU, much more than eagleget (max 4-5%)

Uninstalled

could you also test the download speed between them?

 

[Evjl's Rain]

could you also test the download speed between them?

I monitored the speed using their speed indicators + KIS's network monitor speed indicator -> no bias, no wrong reading. The results were taken after letting the download speed stable for 2 minutes with constant monitoring since the downloads started

EG was set to 16 threads. Default 8 or 10 threads (I forgot). Max 32 threads are allowed
FDM was set to High profile (default) = up to 200 threads, unlimited speed

Majorgeeks server: W10 iso -> Huge gap
EG: 5.15MB/s
FDM: 3.46MB/s

Microsoft server: Office 2016 retail IMG
EG: 8.4-8.55MB/s
FDM: 8.2-8.3MB/s

EG won in both test cases

 

[Azure]

@Evjl's Rain

Thank you

 

[Anupam]

F/P

I got the same reply

 

[Anupam]

I monitored the speed using their speed indicators + KIS's network monitor speed indicator -> no bias, no wrong reading. The results were taken after letting the download speed stable for 2 minutes with constant monitoring since the downloads started

EG was set to 16 threads. Default 8 or 10 threads (I forgot). Max 32 threads are allowed
FDM was set to High profile (default) = up to 200 threads, unlimited speed

Majorgeeks server: W10 iso -> Huge gap
EG: 5.15MB/s
FDM: 3.46MB/s

Microsoft server: Office 2016 retail IMG
EG: 8.4-8.55MB/s
FDM: 8.2-8.3MB/s

EG won in both test cases

Thank you for the comparison. Surely EagleGet is a better download manager. But sadly it does not support torrent. I don't want to install multiple software to download multiple types of files. Once it supports torrent I will never touch FDM again . Right now I find FDM the only download manager which supports torrent and normal downloading without showing any kind of Ads.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

Thank you for the comparison. Surely EagleGet is a better download manager. But sadly it does not support torrent. I don't want to install multiple software to download multiple types of files. Once it supports torrent I will never touch FDM again . Right now I find FDM the only download manager which supports torrent and normal downloading without showing any kind of Ads.

I noticed when downloading torrents with FDM or other torrent downloaders is heavy, constant disk usage, sometimes makes the system unresponsive

with utorrent or bittorrent, we can modify 1 option to make the disk consumption reduce significantly in exchange of a bit higher memory usage (ram caching and fetching after 2 munutes). This can prolong life expectancy of your HDD/SSD. My friend broke his HDD due to too much torrenting without this option

That's why I choose utorrent instead of other programs. I think eagleget + utorrent (2.2.1) is still lighter than FDM alone