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Define elders. Unless any of those companies go belly up, they will always be the same amount of years older than us. Given that Emsisoft has been around for over 15 years already, I would argue we are already one of the older ones around.
We don't make any of that public, sorry.
I see. I'm not a fan of Anti-viruses MITMing browsers SSL connection either. That goes against the purpose of SSL. I have always kept it turned off in products like Kaspersky, Eset and Bitdefender.
I think that depends solely on the point of view. It would be possible for us to just accept one of the numbers of venture capital offers we got over the years, Then pump literally millions into sales staff and aggressive marketing, expand rapidly and then eventually end up being acquired or so big, that you start buying up other companies to further grow your user base, as price of acquisition of new users is getting too high. That's not really how our CEO (and the whole company really) ticks though. We are quite concerned about longevity and are in it for the long haul.
There are a couple of products in there doing the same thing we do. Namely F-Secure and SentinelOne.
There have been a couple of cases. For example, we reported and analysed CryptoLocker over two weeks before anyone else did. People didn't even have it on their radar. There are numerous cases like that. The problem is when a press outlet can quote a household name or a small company in New Zealand they will quote the household name. It's a bit unfair, but especially recently it is starting to shift a little and we get recognised for the work we do a lot more often by the press.
We do a lot more than that.
But yeah, we are probably best known as being "the ransomware people". Which is fine. VPNs are useful if the network you are currently in can't be trusted (public wifi, living in a country with oppressive internet surveillance). However, if you connect to a VPN that is also inside an untrusted network, you obviously don't gain anything. For me, it's mostly a tool to get around Geo IP blocks really. If you want anonymity, you will have to use something like Tor that specifically avoids a lot of the pitfalls of normal VPNs (like making sure incoming and outgoing data can't be correlated and everything goes through dozens of networks that you would all have to monitor at the same time to keep track of packets etc.).
Correct. Public submission channels are usually subject to insane amounts of just random crap people submit. Everyone has their own definition of what they do or don't consider malicious. Then you have all the tinfoil hat people, who just submit every single file they get or find somehow "just to be sure". Public submissions are pretty much a complete and utter shitshow. I can't even count the number of times people find a "virus collection" of ancient DOS viruses, where half the samples are false positives, to begin with, that never even worked even during DOS days, and then clog up the submissions by submitting a thousand single COM files.
I can understand how annoying that can be. Ok, good to know that submitting directly to Emsisoft makes the process faster.
Why would I want to work for a company that doesn't allow its employees to create useful tools for malware victims outside of their normal workplace?
I mean, if you can pick between a company that allows you to help ransomware victims and create decrypters for them in your free time and a company that doesn't, which one would you choose?
it sounded more like playful banter tbh
