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<blockquote data-quote="AlexCa" data-source="post: 840287" data-attributes="member: 52267"><p>For whatever is worth (i&#039;m no expert in av&#039;s or av testing whatsoever), some months ago I was considering to subscribe to an AV, and did a test: wrote a simple program that would delete everything in the Desktop and Documents folder as soon as it was executed, without any warning or consent (something that i definitely wouldn&#039;t want to happen in my computer). Then I put some folders and files in the Documents and Desktop folders, and proceeded to execute the program. Tested with several AV&#039;s, and Emsisoft was the only one that, even though not totally, blocked it. The behavior blocker kicked in, and stopped it. Some files were still deleted, but still most were preserved. I was honestly very surprised that Emsisoft was the only one that stopped that action. I&#039;ve tested this in a VM, by manually putting the program in the desktop and running it. Maybe in other scenarios (like if the file was downloaded from a website) the other AV&#039;s I&#039;ve tried would block it too. Like I said, I&#039;m no expert in AV testing and did this by curiosity while considering to buy an AV.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AlexCa, post: 840287, member: 52267"] For whatever is worth (i'm no expert in av's or av testing whatsoever), some months ago I was considering to subscribe to an AV, and did a test: wrote a simple program that would delete everything in the Desktop and Documents folder as soon as it was executed, without any warning or consent (something that i definitely wouldn't want to happen in my computer). Then I put some folders and files in the Documents and Desktop folders, and proceeded to execute the program. Tested with several AV's, and Emsisoft was the only one that, even though not totally, blocked it. The behavior blocker kicked in, and stopped it. Some files were still deleted, but still most were preserved. I was honestly very surprised that Emsisoft was the only one that stopped that action. I've tested this in a VM, by manually putting the program in the desktop and running it. Maybe in other scenarios (like if the file was downloaded from a website) the other AV's I've tried would block it too. Like I said, I'm no expert in AV testing and did this by curiosity while considering to buy an AV. [/QUOTE]

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