A-squared Anti-Malware for Free!

Hi

Gizmo at Tech Support Alert made a deal with EMSI Software to get their $40 A-squared Anti-Malware for free for one year! I think it's only for a limited time. The instructions on how to get it are here.

Thanks

 

Thank you. I may or may not use it too often, but I did create an account.

 

Thx, nice tip

For people not good with firewalls, the Mamutu/A2 Squared has some nice features to catch downloaders etc. So when you only use inbound firewall this is a nice tip.

Version 4 will problably has Ikarus AV black list data base also, so when your interested go for it before the 31 of july

 

this is actually a very good deal. But I dont need it with my setup.

 

I certainly took advantage, hehe. It caught a couple of things SAS and MBAM both missed.

 

So did i.

Not bad at all. In fact when it was A2Squared i made quite use of it on Windows 98 and kind of lost interest when HIPS jumped out on the scene. Now i see they have one of their own. Pretty impressive and one thing i can safely say about emsisoft, they have to hold the record for any AntiSpyware update eventually surpassing back then Lavasoft and then going full steam ahead.

I like what they done. I was a bit timid it might be more heavy then i would like, but so far the system seems normal with it in place.

I always been a silent A2squared supporter mainly because of their consistent longetivity and persistent updates which never seem to quit, something on the order of an AV program only more maybe.

Trouble now is i installed it on one of my units that have HIPS/Behavioral Blocker already on it, so i'll likely be pulling one or both of them. As a scanner it's been a long time mainstay, and i like companies that are in it for the long haul.

The HIPS part is especially appealing for me.

 

Can you use it as a on-demand scanner and not run it when windows boots up?

 

Better get it while you can, A4 release problably has Ikarus included, got a good test result see post https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1282133&postcount=1

 

I would like to see this offer for mamutu!

 

I've grown accustomed to Threatfire's ways, but, I do wonder how necessary it is to keep it onboard with this A-Squared. A2 seems like it covers bases a bit more (I'm saying that purely from looking at the settings for the IDS), but has anyone tested it against TF to see which works out better? For that matter, does TF do things differently enough that it's still advisable to run it alongside A2?

Sorry if I went off-topic there, I was just wondering. If results are favorable I could use a little extra freed memory

 

Hi

Update: "This free offer expires on July 31, 2008".

 

That was offered here back in February.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/mamutu/

A-squared Anti-Malware is basicly Mamutu with a scanner and a few more features.
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/compare/

 

Yaa, but A-Squared Anti-Malware needs 70 MB of RAM in my pc ( never mind, I've 3 GB ), and I wish to have for free only Mamutu. Once in a month I usually scan on demand my pc with A-Squared free.

 

Thanks So ... running great on 64-bit Vista Ulti. Also running the beta. A lot of fp's, but I'm sending them in.

 

Off topic,

When I bought PRSC over 5 months ago, A2 only ran the on demand scanner on vist 64, you are sure that 3.5 also runs on Vista64?

Thx

 

The thing is, A-squared runs pretty heavy when scanning a FULL system scan. It takes for ever, and for some odd reason it always seems to slow down my pc. I know it doesn't use up too much ram and all, but i'd like to see it a bit lighter anyway.

 

When I think a-squared Anti-Malware 3.5, I think false positives.

My experience with that program was like one continuous cycle of submissions to fp@emsisoft.com and file uploads to VirusTotal and Jotti.

Yes, all programs have them, but a-squared took false positives to a new level.

 

Day 2 of use and it's running just fine here, and I only have 1 gig of ram. I noticed a couple of FP's, one was a TCP.sys patch that was labeled an email worm ( It was the patch from LvlLord, which every AV I've ever used flagged as bad, and did for everyone else too). It also labeled the old MS RegClean as medium risk, but I hardly used the thing so I let A2 get rid of it (I use CCleaner mainly). I had one issue, and that was with this morning's FF3 update. It flagged the update as backdoor activity and the screen comes and goes very fast to allow/deny. I allowed it and it made a rule to monitor FF3 while allowing possible backdoor activity and spyware activity. I'm sure I am misunderstanding, but I un-checked those two options to allow that kind of activity because I don't figure that's a very good rule. Now it's set to just monitor FF3.

 

Are there known issues with AVs?

Thanks,
Jerry

 

None here with Avast on board.

 

I've used A2 in the past and haven't been a fan of it. Also it never seems to find anything when I check Jotti's but maybe I'm always looking at the wrong times.

 

ANyone install the beta updates

 

No.I left all of the options at default except scheduled scans.

 

No issues with AntiVir PE here.

 

From emsisoft forums. The guard component is basically Mamutu.