- May 16, 2017
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IMO Zemana used to be good. They've seemingly declined over the last year or so.
Also the very fact they seemingly ripped off HMP has turned me off - even the icon was snagged. Erik brought this up elsewhere and they've gone into it in great detail. That was a poor way to treat a partner IMO. Also Zemana never responded about my disclosure of their 'distributed' cloud scanning computers being exposed to the internet with all of the intimate details of these machines leading a potential security exploit or at the least a DDOS. Also, if they are paying VirusTotal then why are they using rotating clusters of scanning systems spread around the world? See this thread;
Insight into Zemana's strange cloud scanning..
Fileless Malware is a big concern. I've seen a few every week in 2017 and common AV products run in the background totally oblivious to their operation. HitmanPro is very good at finding fileless malware if that's the case. Zemana is OK at it, but once again, I've seen detection decline from them. That's personal experience based on several hundred malware removals a month I supervise for the MSP I work for.
Thank you ForgottenSeer 58943. Yes I read your post about Zemana's strange behaviour last month. Very interesting finding!
I have tried HMP Alert as it is now part of Sophos Home Beta which I tried for two months before uninstalling it due to slow system behaviour. I think I'll have to try HMP more in depth.