Emsisoft Emergency Kit 10 available

Discussion in 'other anti-malware software' started by Fabian Wosar, Jun 17, 2015.

  1. Fabian Wosar

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    Hello everyone,

    We’re proud to announce the release of Emsisoft Emergency Kit version 10, our free for personal use malware cleaning toolkit. Version 10 includes all the on-demand scan related improvements we introduced in Emsisoft Anti-Malware and Emsisoft Internet Security 10, which means you can take advantage of our new and ultra-fast Malware Scan, as well as improved detection and removal accuracy.

    You can find the full release announcement in our blog.
     
  2. zapjb

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    Thanks Emsisoft for this wonderful tool.
     
  3. haakon

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    a2engine v3.0 > v3.5 -- nice!

    Thanks.
     
  4. J_L

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    Worth a try, thanks.

    Definitely faster than before, thanks!
     
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  5. Minimalist

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    Great news, thanks. :thumb:
     
  6. @Fabian Wosar

    Thanks, seems to be directed for ease of use, because where is . . . . (see pic, speaks for itself)

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  7. Fabian Wosar

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    Blitzblank has been discontinued. For most users it is just easier to quarantine a file manually, which will essentially use the same mechanisms Blitzblank used.
     
  8. Luckily command line scanner is still included, thanks for that :thumb:

    1. Wall socket plug-in clock timer disconnects power from modem (at night)
    2. Wall socket plug-in clock timer powers on NAS
    3. Copies data modified files to quick-backup partition (new generation, so only modified files)
    4. EMSIsoft Emergency Kit command checks new generation
    5. Set Anti-execute and read-only permissions to today's quick backup
    6. Backup of quick-backup of previous day to NAS
    7. Delete of previous day quick backup
    8. Wall socket plug-in clock timer disconnects power from NAS (in the morning)
    9. Wall socket plug-in clock timer powers on modem

    On wife's laptop, the sequence 3-4-5-6-7 is 6-3-4-5-7
     
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  9. dietlmann

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    On my Windows 8.1 64-Bit machine the new EEK10 works very well, but on my Windows 8.1 32-Bit Tablet it produces three "Installation failed" Messages before the gui open. It seems that it cannot load the driver and install the service for it. No Problems with EEK9.
     
  10. Fabian Wosar

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    Do you run EEK as an Administrator, dietlmann?
     
  11. dietlmann

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    @Fabian: Yes
     
  12. fblais

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    Thanks Fabian!

    French locale, the update screen is truncated:
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    Also, instead of "Signatures ne plus à jour" which is bad french anyway (should read "Signatures ne sont plus à jour"), you could state "Signatures désuètes" for instance, which is shorter.
     
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    Great Tool!!! :thumb:
     
  14. dietlmann

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    @Fabian: Problem is solved. It is necessary to make a "real boot" (not "fast boot") under Windows 8.1 before you can run EEK from another place again.
     
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  15. onigen

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    Very nice improvement on scan speed :)
     
  16. Minimalist

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    Yes, I agree. Although it is scanning much less files than it did with Smart Scan in version 9.
     
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    Email support
    Each support request will be answered as soon as possible, usually within less than 24 hours. The Emsisoft team prides itself on its response speed.

    Submit new Malware: submit@emsisoft.com
    False alerts: fp@emsisoft.com

    https://www.emsisoft.com/en/support/contact/
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    Knowledgebase: Emsisoft Emergency Kit
    If you are 100% sure that the file which was detected by one of the Emsisoft programsis not really malicious, it may be a false positive. In this case please send the file causing the detection to fp@emsisoft.com so we can immediately correct the false detection.

    If you already moved the file to quarantine, you can also use the "Submit" button to send us a false positive report.
    https://helpdesk.emsisoft.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/16/14/an-emsisoft-product-detected-a-file-as-malware-which-is-not-really-malware-why
     
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  20. Fabian Wosar

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    Thanks, will forward it to our translator.

    It shouldn't really be necessary. We will look into it irregardless.

    Well, yes but those files that are scanned count for a lot more. The old "Smart Scan" essentially scanned "C:\Windows", "C:\Program Files" and "C:\Program Files (x86)". If you know anything about malware removal you will know that these folders haven't been targeted by malware for years. The vast majority of malware (well above 90%) targets the user profile to avoid elevation. So scanning your user profile folder is vitally more important than scanning any other folder is even though it only contains a fraction of the files the other locations contain.

    The new "Malware Scan" takes a much, much more sophisticated approach when it comes to selecting which locations to scan and how thoroughly to scan them. Instead of 3 hardcoded folders that make up a "Smart Scan" the new "Malware Scan" uses a constantly updated list of more than 60 different locations that we have seen being used by malware over the past couple of years. So even though we end up with less files overall, the files we scan are actually a lot more relevant to make sure a system is clean.
     
  21. Minimalist

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    Thank you for clarification. You've done great job with version 10. Also for peace of mind there is also a custom scan possible so users can scan whole C: drive if they want.
     
  22. I should not have cleaned up the logs, but the plain old fashoned C-drive scan also seems to be faster (I remember it was around 2.50 and now is 2 minute 20 seconds). Anyone having reliable measurements of old and new scanning speeds?
     
  23. Fabian Wosar

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    It is. We managed to greatly reduce the amount of disk I/O during scans. So even if you perform the same scan with the new version, on average you will end up with faster scans compared to the old version. To give you a few numbers from my workstation:

    Scanning my D drive with about 300 GB worth of files took about 11 minutes using the old engine and during the scan effectively 37 GB of data was read from the disk. The new scan engine, without reducing scan accuracy at all, finishes the same scan with the same settings in about 7.5 minutes and only reads about 1.33 GB in total.

    On average we have seen about 90% less disk I/O during scans. Depending on what type of disks you are using, how many cores you have, and how fast each of your CPU cores is, that decrease can result in some huge performance increases, especially when scanning network shares for example.
     
  24. Thx, Fabian this explains why it is 20% faster on simple dual core Pentium (G3240) and an old SSD (195MB/s read, 75MB/s write).
     
  25. Tarantula

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    I've sent an e-mail immediately after posting this above. Still no answer from the support. :gack:
    Emsisoft is the most overrated AV company in the world. Period!
     
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