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    Free 1-year A-Squared Anti-Malware license

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Baserk, Nov 8, 2009.

  1. Baserk

    Baserk Notebook user

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    Folks at Emsisoft have decided to offer their well-known program A-Squared AntiMalware for free for one year.
    The program consists of their renowned Mamutu behavioural blocker and Ikarus AV.
    This program promises to catch all bad things; viruses, trojans, worms, all of it.
    They have a very high detection rate but this is accompanied by false positives (take this into account).

    You can run this program besides your regular antivirus because A-Squared checks only ' On-Execution'; if you download a file (let's say a trojan) the program will only catch it if you try to run it.
    It doesn't check read/write operations like most standard AV's do.

    The program works on XP, Vista and 7, 32- and 64-bit, but the Mamutu part works only on 32-bit versions.

    The full specifications can be found on their webpage.
    This offer starts on 11-11-2009 at 11:11 and the license key required can be found through their website here
    Again, it starts on the 11th of November, NOT today.
    Cheers.
     
    Baserk, Nov 8, 2009
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  2. Eugene91

    Eugene91 Notebook Consultant

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    going to get this replacing that copycat company IOxxx

    Seems like a rather better solution :p
     
    Eugene91, Nov 9, 2009
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    Le bump.
    The offer for a free 1-year license for the full version of A-Squared AntiMalware has started today.
     
    Baserk, Nov 11, 2009
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    Complicated software to use >.< it seems to work as a standalone not with an AV accompanying it because it has Ikarus in it..
     
    Eugene91, Nov 11, 2009
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