Hmm, can you elaborate why testing is expensive. My naivete thought third party independent testers were not financially dependent on, for example, Emsisoft. I thought third party independent tests were not vendor sponsored tests.
I do game occasionally, yes. I enjoy MMORPGs a lot. At the moment I am playing Black Desert Online. I am also a huge Nintendo fan. My team also has a table top evening once a week where we play online board games together. Stuff like D&D, Secret Hitler, Cards Against Humanity, Broken Picture Phone, stuff like that.
16 developers.
In many cases just a huge marketing smoke screen.What's your take on NextGen AVs? (Yes, I had to ask)
Most testing cooperations are for-profit. Since there are only two noteworthy ones whose results everyone copies, they can dictate the price.
Learn a programming language first. Any programming language is fine. Then try to be creative and figure out as many ways as possible you could identify the file with relative certainty. It's as easy as that. There are also some books that can give you ideas. Example: Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense, The: Peter Szor: 9780321304544: Amazon.com: Books.
I don't work in sales, so I don't have access to that data, sorry.
Pretty sure it's only alive because of legacy code bases. Especially the banking sector has a lot of them.
Just don't.
The problem in those cases is monetisation. We do need to make money somehow. In general, if the user doesn't pay us, the user becomes the product that we sell to other third-party companies. Either directly, by gathering data, creating a user profile and selling those to advertisers, or indirectly, by using the large installation base and the data collected through it to turn it into threat intelligence we can capitalise on. In general, neither of those is particularly appealing to us.
Is that how you got into malware detection and removal coding? Is that how you got your job at Emsisoft? Eventually I wanna work for you guys.
Nope. I am too old to have learned it that way. I didn't have fancy books or tutorials. I didn't even have a GUI most of the time when I started. My first programs and AVs were written for good old MS DOS.Is that how you got into malware detection and removal coding? Is that how you got your job at Emsisoft? Eventually I wanna work for you guys.
Thanks.....had no idea vendors paid for independent testing. Um, what are the "two noteworthy ones"?
AV-Comparatives and AV-Test are what probably 90% of all press relies on. There is also VB100, which is actually free. But their testing is somewhat limited.
I think this is the one thing that gets forgotten sometimes, the people that make these great programs also have lives and also need the company to survive in order to make an income. Sure you can have ad's and such, but that ends up doing away with your core values as a company. What programming language and GUI does EAM use?
We see Emsisoft Anti-Malware more as a service than a product. That is one of the reasons why we don't hide behind Indian call centres or make it overly difficult to talk to us. We don't think that once we managed to get the sale, we can forget about the user or that we need to squeeze the last bit of money out of them by asking for extra fees for support cases or for helping them remove malware if they ever get hit for example. It's one of the reasons we don't do a lot of promotions, because special sales and promotions for services never really feel right, and to a degree it's also why a wholesaler like Flipkart probably won't get a good enough deal from us to make it worth it for them to stock our product. Because doing that, would mean we would have to cut costs at other ends: Maybe not allow you to talk to an actual Emsisoft employee every time you shoot us an email or enter the live chat on our website or maybe trying to squeeze some extra money out of you at the time you are most desperate.
I think I mentioned that before. Here it is again:
We used to use VCL as a UI framework with lots of self-developed components but recently migrated to a framework called Sciter, which essentially allows us to design the UI using HTML and CSS. There are still some bits that are based on VCL, but we are working hard to replace them with Sciter as well and make steady progress on that.
We see Emsisoft Anti-Malware more as a service than a product. That is one of the reasons why we don't hide behind Indian call centres or make it overly difficult to talk to us. We don't think that once we managed to get the sale, we can forget about the user or that we need to squeeze the last bit of money out of them by asking for extra fees for support cases or for helping them remove malware if they ever get hit for example. It's one of the reasons we don't do a lot of promotions, because special sales and promotions for services never really feel right, and to a degree it's also why a wholesaler like Flipkart probable won't get a good enough deal from us to make it worth it for them to stock our product. Because doing that, would mean we would have to cut costs at other ends: Maybe not allow you to talk to an actual Emsisoft employee every time you shoot us an email or enter the live chat on our website or maybe trying to squeeze some extra money out of you at the time you are most desperate.
That being said, I am sure there will be some kind of promotion available again. We always kind of tend to do something around our anniversary around the end of the year for example or on special occasions like Black Friday or Eastern. But hey, it wouldn't be a special offer if it was available almost all the time, right?
Thank you. We are really quite proud of it and I will make sure Dave and his team (Kevin, Arthur, and Thomas) are aware of your kind words.I agree whole heartedly and thats one of things I like most about Emsisoft. IMHO (and I am not just saying this because you are here), I honestly believe that Emsisoft has probably one of the best, if not THE best customer service available out of all the security companies around.
I know PHP, yet stated your intent to leave why? Also learning Go for backend, do you think that is better then C#?
PHP is just horrible. It doesn't scale particularly well compared to DotNet Core or even Python for example. Go is really interesting and definitely a good pick. Especially if you want to go into orchestration and devops.
