Jimmy, It would be insanity to use a beta release of anti-ransomware product on a production computer. For a tool to protect a normally configured windows desktop operating system from ransomware the program would have to be so entwined with the operating system and have such control over it that having anything but a program with NO KNOWN BUGS and very little possibility of unknown bugs due to extensive competent professional testing phases would be potentially as bad as having a ransomware attack take place as those unknown beta phase bugs could easily kill an operating system and any data stored on it and quite probably would not block any current ransomware anyway! Look for disclaimers in the EULA! They will not warrant it will protect data and will not be held liable for any data lost as a result of running the program and it breaking the OS or failing to protect the system from ransomware. Jimmy, It would be insanity to use a beta release of anti-ransomware product on a production computer. For a tool to protect a normally configured windows desktop operating system from ransomware the program would have to be so entwined with the operating system and have such control over it that having anything but a program with NO KNOWN BUGS and very little possibility of unknown bugs due to extensive competent professional testing phases would be potentially as bad as having a ransomware attack take place as those unknown beta phase bugs could easily kill an operating system and any data stored on it and quite probably would not block any current ransomware anyway! Look for disclaimers in the EULA!
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They will not warrant it will protect data and will not be held liable for any data lost as a result of running the program and it breaking the OS or failing to protect the system from ransomware. #13Review:Advice first: with any program of this diagnostic nature, the potential to do good is equal to the potential to do harm; a computer user no more wants their pride and joy misdiagnosing with a serious illness, requiring serious yet entirely unnecessary remediation, than they do themselves.For that reason, installing a fully-functioning version of a diagnostic program which might in some way result in a mis-advised repair is never to be recommended. In this case then, I did not download the GOTD package but instead went to the developer's website and used this link:This review is therefore of that trial product, one which, because I haven't paid for it, has been capable only of reporting.
Not rectifying.First impressions. An excellent GUI, though as ever, the user should delve into its features before doing anything else. This is particularly important where Settings are concerned, because this software is defaulted to starting every time Windows starts and performing a scan every time the program is launched. Neither are necessary. Neither are desirable.As many computer users unfortunately don't take the trouble to check a program's settings first, I followed their example and left things as they were.
Which meant that as soon as the program launched, so, too, did a 'quick scan'. It lasted 6 minutes 40 seconds, scanned for 330,663 'virus strains or unwanted programs', examined 78,405 items, found 820 harmful objects, 767 threats, and 53 PUPS including within those 53 a total of 780 parts of threats.Novice computer users may well give up at that last result, perplexed by a math that might seem inexplicable. But they might also be very, very impressed with all those numbers.Main thing to note here is the existence of so many PUPS. If you don't know the meaning of the acronym, the scan report page states: 'Remember: PUPS are unwanted programs you may use at your own risk. But our Analyst Team claims they can cause troubles on your PC.' Though the sheer woolliness of that comment is disconcerting - 'cause troubles': huh? - the assertion that everything identified as a PUP is 'unwanted' is even more so.
It's as if the developer doesn't even understand the difference between actual and potential - and thus its scan is reporting 53 programs I definitely do not want on my computer when in fact the software has merely estimated the existence of 53 maybe-possibly-then-again-maybe-nots.Such disregard for accuracy strikes me as a unhelpful; certainly, it does not inspire trust. Nor does the existence of an 'Analyst Team' capable only of claiming stuff, when what I need of any software is the assurance that those behind it know stuff.I next ran a 'Full Scan'. It lasted 42 minutes 51 seconds, scanned for 330,746 'virus strains and unwanted programs', investigated '58 memory items, 41,070 registry items, and 75,797 files'. Result: 772 threats. 55 PUPs (including 781 parts of threats).
827 harmful objects. Total, scanned items: 116,925.Using 'Advanced Mode' it was possible to view the results by type: Malware, Adware, Suspicious, PUP, Trojan. I sifted through the findings to identify a common element, if any. It turned out to be 'a part of PUP.FPL.Gen.vl'Clicking on this text triggered a link to further information about the diagnosis: the online GridinSoft Help Center.
Yet there, disappointingly enough, the GridinSoft 'encyclopedia' failed entirely to say even a single word about the PUP.FPL.Gen.vl infecting my computer. Instead it wished me to know that:'PUP is slightly not the same as malware as it doesn't have a goal to destroy your operating system or steal sensitive information. In most cases PUPs are marketing tools that get to your computer with the help of social engineering.' Oh really?As with the quick scan results, the software likewise reported: 'Now you can apply the action you need to any item listed below or clean them all at once' - the equivalent of saying you can now spend a helluva lot of time examining every single firework in the box. Or go ahead and press a button which might just blow everything up.I closed the program.
A warning in bright red ink flashed up: 827 malicious items. Your computer is infected. Remove all threats to keep your system safe! The warning was accompanied by two options: 'Close anyway', this lower case text presumably to imply how casual a user is behaving at so critical a time, and 'CURE MY PC', this text capitalised to emphasize the wisdom of believing what this software wants you to do.But, but, but. A cure for a condition accurately diagnosed or a cure for a condition completely misdiagnosed? Or, to put the dilemma in medical terms: a sticking plaster cure for a small blister which which one doctor has diagnosed on my left foot. Or a leg amputation cure for the gangrene which another doctor says is infecting my entire left leg?Who knows?
All I am certain of is that hitting the CURE MY PC button would be as stupid as stupid gets: whether my foot, my leg, or my computer, I need a second opinion. A further examination and diagnosis.And so I turn to Malwarebytes Premium, the Real Time active defense installed on my PC. I run its Threat Scan: rootkits, memory, startup files, registry, file system and heuristics analysis.
The result is:Scan time, GridinSoft: 42 minutes 51 seconds; Malwarebytes: 4 minutes 40 seconds. Total items scanned, GridinSoft: 116,925; Malwarebytes: 275,406.
Threats detected: Gridinsoft: 827; Malwarebytes Premium: 0.Conclusion:This isn't a comparison of one diagnostic tool against another. Such would be facile: Malwarebytes can be as fallible as GridinSoft, and vice versa. But the question nevertheless has to be asked: can it credibly be the case that GridinSoft has discovered 827 threats to my working-perfectly computer which the world's leading anti-malware software has failed entirely to identify?The equally credible answer has to be a resounding 'no'. And the explanation for that isn't hard to find: I didn't need to spend hours, poring over GridinSoft's results, to discover that time and again it was flagging up False Positives.
That it was mis-diagnosing as a threat that which very obviously was not a threat.How many mis-diagnoses there've been, I can't say; I have neither the time nor inclination for the forensic examination of each individual result.I can say though that today's software worries me. Because too many computer users out there - millions of 'em - are still naive enough to blindly trust in whatever appears on their computer screens, this despite the historical fact that as Abraham Lincoln once said, you shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet. (The 140 GOTD down-voters of Joek's comment the other day may like to re-read that.
)The numbers game was played, very successfully, by all kinds of scareware operators some years ago, with gullible souls believing that if a registry 'optimizer' found 10,000 problems then it must, by virtue of the sheer total alone, be better than something which only found half a dozen.I don't for a moment believe today's developer is in the scareware business. But I do believe it needs to be considerably more careful in its diagnostic procedures and much, much more professional in the explanations it provides both in-program and on-line. Until that happens, GridinSoft Anti-Malware 4.0.3 is not a program I could use, nor ever recommend. Review:Advice first: with any program of this diagnostic nature, the potential to do good is equal to the potential to do harm; a computer user no more wants their pride and joy misdiagnosing with a serious illness, requiring serious yet entirely unnecessary remediation, than they do themselves.For that reason, installing a fully-functioning version of a diagnostic program which might in some way result in a mis-advised repair is never to be recommended. In this case then, I did not download the GOTD package but instead went to the developer's website and used this link:review is therefore of that trial product, one which, because I haven't paid for it, has been capable only of reporting. Not rectifying.First impressions.
An excellent GUI, though as ever, the user should delve into its features before doing anything else. This is particularly important where Settings are concerned, because this software is defaulted to starting every time Windows starts and performing a scan every time the program is launched. Neither are necessary. Neither are desirable.As many computer users unfortunately don't take the trouble to check a program's settings first, I followed their example and left things as they were. Which meant that as soon as the program launched, so, too, did a 'quick scan'. It lasted 6 minutes 40 seconds, scanned for 330,663 'virus strains or unwanted programs', examined 78,405 items, found 820 harmful objects, 767 threats, and 53 PUPS including within those 53 a total of 780 parts of threats.Novice computer users may well give up at that last result, perplexed by a math that might seem inexplicable.
But they might also be very, very impressed with all those numbers.Main thing to note here is the existence of so many PUPS. If you don't know the meaning of the acronym, the scan report page states: 'Remember: PUPS are unwanted programs you may use at your own risk. But our Analyst Team claims they can cause troubles on your PC.' Though the sheer woolliness of that comment is disconcerting - 'cause troubles': huh?
- the assertion that everything identified as a PUP is 'unwanted' is even more so. It's as if the developer doesn't even understand the difference between actual and potential - and thus its scan is reporting 53 programs I definitely do not want on my computer when in fact the software has merely estimated the existence of 53 maybe-possibly-then-again-maybe-nots.Such disregard for accuracy strikes me as a unhelpful; certainly, it does not inspire trust.
Nor does the existence of an 'Analyst Team' capable only of claiming stuff, when what I need of any software is the assurance that those behind it know stuff.I next ran a 'Full Scan'. It lasted 42 minutes 51 seconds, scanned for 330,746 'virus strains and unwanted programs', investigated '58 memory items, 41,070 registry items, and 75,797 files'. Result: 772 threats. 55 PUPs (including 781 parts of threats). 827 harmful objects. Total, scanned items: 116,925.Using 'Advanced Mode' it was possible to view the results by type: Malware, Adware, Suspicious, PUP, Trojan.
I sifted through the findings to identify a common element, if any. It turned out to be 'a part of PUP.FPL.Gen.vl' Clicking on this text triggered a link to further information about the diagnosis: the online GridinSoft Help Center. Yet there, disappointingly enough, the GridinSoft 'encyclopedia' failed entirely to say even a single word about the PUP.FPL.Gen.vl infecting my computer. Instead it wished me to know that: 'PUP is slightly not the same as malware as it doesn't have a goal to destroy your operating system or steal sensitive information. In most cases PUPs are marketing tools that get to your computer with the help of social engineering.' Oh really?As with the quick scan results, the software likewise reported: 'Now you can apply the action you need to any item listed below or clean them all at once' - the equivalent of saying you can now spend a helluva lot of time examining every single firework in the box.
Or go ahead and press a button which might just blow everything up.I closed the program. A warning in bright red ink flashed up: 827 malicious items.
Your computer is infected. Remove all threats to keep your system safe! The warning was accompanied by two options: 'Close anyway', this lower case text presumably to imply how casual a user is behaving at so critical a time, and 'CURE MY PC', this text capitalised to emphasize the wisdom of believing what this software wants you to do.But, but, but. A cure for a condition accurately diagnosed or a cure for a condition completely misdiagnosed? Or, to put the dilemma in medical terms: a sticking plaster cure for a small blister which which one doctor has diagnosed on my left foot. Or a leg amputation cure for the gangrene which another doctor says is infecting my entire left leg?Who knows?
All I am certain of is that hitting the CURE MY PC button would be as stupid as stupid gets: whether my foot, my leg, or my computer, I need a second opinion. A further examination and diagnosis.And so I turn to Malwarebytes Premium, the Real Time active defense installed on my PC. I run its Threat Scan: rootkits, memory, startup files, registry, file system and heuristics analysis. The result is:Scan time, GridinSoft: 42 minutes 51 seconds; Malwarebytes: 4 minutes 40 seconds.
Total items scanned, GridinSoft: 116,925; Malwarebytes: 275,406. Threats detected: Gridinsoft: 827; Malwarebytes Premium: 0.Conclusion:This isn't a comparison of one diagnostic tool against another.
Such would be facile: Malwarebytes can be as fallible as GridinSoft, and vice versa. But the question nevertheless has to be asked: can it credibly be the case that GridinSoft has discovered 827 threats to my working-perfectly computer which the world's leading anti-malware software has failed entirely to identify?The equally credible answer has to be a resounding 'no'. And the explanation for that isn't hard to find: I didn't need to spend hours, poring over GridinSoft's results, to discover that time and again it was flagging up False Positives. That it was mis-diagnosing as a threat that which very obviously was not a threat.How many mis-diagnoses there've been, I can't say; I have neither the time nor inclination for the forensic examination of each individual result.I can say though that today's software worries me. Because too many computer users out there - millions of 'em - are still naive enough to blindly trust in whatever appears on their computer screens, this despite the historical fact that as Abraham Lincoln once said, you shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet.
(The 140 GOTD down-voters of Joek's comment the other day may like to re-read that. )The numbers game was played, very successfully, by all kinds of scareware operators some years ago, with gullible souls believing that if a registry 'optimizer' found 10,000 problems then it must, by virtue of the sheer total alone, be better than something which only found half a dozen.I don't for a moment believe today's developer is in the scareware business. But I do believe it needs to be considerably more careful in its diagnostic procedures and much, much more professional in the explanations it provides both in-program and on-line. Until that happens, GridinSoft Anti-Malware 4.0.3 is not a program I could use, nor ever recommend. MikeR,Thanks for your feedback! We have read it with a pleasure. We are really gratefull that you have devoted so much time to our product.
Each so detailed review is very important for us, as we develop and improve ourselves thanks to our users every day. We will certainly take into account your comments (personally yours and other users who wrote here). However we completely trust the recommendations of our analysts and we will gladly check the results of your scanning to provide you with our conclusions.2All,In advance we ask forgiveness for the delay in the answers and we are ready to answer all questions concerning the work of our program and the results of its work as soon as possible if you contacts our Support center via [email protected].
MikeR,Thanks for your feedback! We have read it with a pleasure. We are really gratefull that you have devoted so much time to our product. Each so detailed review is very important for us, as we develop and improve ourselves thanks to our users every day. We will certainly take into account your comments (personally yours and other users who wrote here). However we completely trust the recommendations of our analysts and we will gladly check the results of your scanning to provide you with our conclusions.2All,In advance we ask forgiveness for the delay in the answers and we are ready to answer all questions concerning the work of our program and the results of its work as soon as possible if you contacts our Support center via [email protected]. #6I had this image editor program for a long time but haven't been used it for a while.
And today after the scan i've noticed that one exe-file from it's folder was detected as a malware. I didn't believe that since i'm using this soft for 7 years already. But i went and checked it on virustotal out of interest and it turned out to be infected, apparently some virus has modified it and other antiviruses didn't find anything. Deleted it with no doubts. Thanks giveaway and antimalware. GridinSoft Support,Re. Your comment: 'The review copied by you was written 3 years ago, since that time we did a tremendous job of updating the product, its interface and fixed many of its issues so most of the Cons are no longer relevant.'
If you are confident that many of the issues have been fixed, then do the right thing and get PC Magazine to review a current copy of your program. It would help tremendously in getting potential customers to consider your software again. Until you do, that PC review, regardless of how old it is, will affect user's decision to risk their computer on this software.I look forward to seeing the results of the new review. GridinSoft Support,Re. Your comment: 'The review copied by you was written 3 years ago, since that time we did a tremendous job of updating the product, its interface and fixed many of its issues so most of the Cons are no longer relevant.' If you are confident that many of the issues have been fixed, then do the right thing and get PC Magazine to review a current copy of your program. It would help tremendously in getting potential customers to consider your software again.
Until you do, that PC review, regardless of how old it is, will affect user's decision to risk their computer on this software.I look forward to seeing the results of the new review. Bill, In answer to the first 'Why not' because without expert and laborious checking and changing of scan settings and results selection it will likely trash saved preferences on most websites visited and MANY wanted programs it falsely detects as malicious or PUP's will be disabled, broken or otherwise crippled by indiscriminate file deletions.And regarding your 'do you want a lifetime license for free?' YES we ALL want non-expiring licenses with no re-install rights and no automatic rights to future program updates! That is what this websites user base has been built upon and not upon extended trials or short subscription licenses or crippled Special Editions that are never formally sold as retail products.For this product one time use would be more than enough to know I'd never let this programs expert system determine what is good or bad on my systems!Don't forget to disable the default settings of start with windows and quick scan at startup or equivilent as that will kinda ensure every reboot and subsiquent login will take an inordinate amount of time!
Bill, In answer to the first 'Why not' because without expert and laborious checking and changing of scan settings and results selection it will likely trash saved preferences on most websites visited and MANY wanted programs it falsely detects as malicious or PUP's will be disabled, broken or otherwise crippled by indiscriminate file deletions.And regarding your 'do you want a lifetime license for free?' YES we ALL want non-expiring licenses with no re-install rights and no automatic rights to future program updates! That is what this websites user base has been built upon and not upon extended trials or short subscription licenses or crippled Special Editions that are never formally sold as retail products.For this product one time use would be more than enough to know I'd never let this programs expert system determine what is good or bad on my systems!Don't forget to disable the default settings of start with windows and quick scan at startup or equivilent as that will kinda ensure every reboot and subsiquent login will take an inordinate amount of time!.
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