New in 2020.2: Bye Surf Protection, welcome Web Protection!

[Bot]

This month's update includes a name-change and a new feature to specify custom update feeds for testing.

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[amir 957]

I really like the way Emsisoft, Kaspersky, F-secure and Norton release the updates, they make nice changes not only yearly, almost monthly!
While other companies like Avira are asleep and don't change the Settings and Scan UI even 2 year after changing the main menu UI

 

[show-Zi]

The emisi update is mature, not evolution.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

A great linguistic revolution -_-

 

[show-Zi]

A great linguistic revolution -_-

The notation in English has been changed to Web protection, but it has not been reflected in the Japanese localization, and it is still Surf Protection. Japanese update appears to be excluded

 

[Divine_Barakah]

The notation in English has been changed to Web protection, but it has not been reflected in the Japanese localization, and it is still Surf Protection. Japanese update appears to be excluded

Then they should hire a Japanese translator: they should hire you

 

[show-Zi]

The emisi language is stagnant, not updated

.....I don't care because it doesn't affect the operation

 

[DDE_Server]

From the chapter ‘When history catches up with you’: Almost 15 years ago, we introduced a new protection layer in Emsisoft Anti-Malware that monitors Internet activity. At that time, the terminology ‘surfing the Internet‘ was quite common. Even more so in the German-speaking corner of the world where Emsisoft has its roots. So the logical choice for us back then was to call that feature ‘Surf Protection.’


Google Trends on ‘Internet Surfing’
Over the past decade, however, ‘Internet surfing’ fell out of favor with most people — and is now considered an odd relic from the early days of the Internet. Additionally, the feature has progressed from being a simple DNS-based host blocker to a fully-featured protection layer. It now includes web activity monitoring on multiple technological levels across many programs (not just web browsers).

These developments led us to the decision of renaming ‘Surf Protection’ to ‘Web Protection.’ Functionally, Web Protection is exactly the same as trusty old Surf Protection. It delivers the same great protection — all we’ve done is give it a shiny new name fit for the modern Internet era.


The new ‘Web Protection’ layer in Emsisoft
All 2020.2 improvements in a nutshell
Emsisoft Anti-Malware

• Changed ‘Surf Protection’ to ‘Web Protection’.
• New feature to specify custom update feeds for testing.
• Improved window design.
• Several minor tweaks and fixes.

MyEmsisoft/Cloud Console

• New feature to specify custom update feeds for testing.
• Restructured and extended events for email and webhook notifications.
• Improved user permissions handling.
• Improved workspaces dashboard UX.
• Several minor tweaks and fixes.

New in 2020.2: Bye Surf Protection, welcome Web Protection!

This month's update includes a name-change and a new feature to specify custom update feeds for testing.

blog.emsisoft.com

 

[Cortex]

I wasn't aware it's no longer surfing, it took me years to use that & now I've got to change again - Most people say I'm faffing on the computer so might stick with that

 

[show-Zi]

A few years later it may be called 'dive-protection'. I think web is more about diving than surfing. The term 'drift monitoring' is also appropriate because it sometimes 'drifts'.
In any case, I expect Japanese localization to retain 'Surf-protection'.

 

[oldschool]

Most people say I'm faffing on the computer

My wife says I'm addicted to it!