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		<title>Win 10 Fall Creators Update Ransomware folder protection</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Boris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Controlled folder access]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Several days ago, Windows 10’s latest update was introduced and made available for the public. With the Creators Fall Update, a number of new features and improvements have been added to the newest Operating System created by Microsoft. We already covered one such feature called TruePlay that allows game developers to add an anti-cheat protection [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Several days ago, Windows 10’s latest update was introduced and made available for the public. With the Creators Fall Update, a number of new features and improvements have been added to the newest Operating System created by Microsoft. We already covered one such feature called <strong>TruePlay</strong> that allows game developers to add an anti-cheat protection to their Win 10 products &#8211; you can read more about TruePlay <a href="http://malwarecomplaints.info/windows-10-anti-cheat-engine-added-latest-update/">here</a>. Another interesting utility that the developers behind Windows have added, which might appeal to a larger group of users, is the so-called </span><b>Controlled Folder Access</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which is basically a utility that allows the user to restrict the access to chosen folders in order to protect their contents from malicious software such as Ransomware.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Everything is blocked by default</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once enabled, the </span><b>Controlled Folder Access </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">would block all apps that haven’t been manually whitelisted by the user from accessing any protected folders. In theory, this should stop any attempts from Ransomware viruses that try to encrypt the user’s data as long as the folder where the files reside has been added to the list of folders protected by the new feature.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> As you probably already know, Ransomware is a huge issue for both regular users and the admins of big computer networks as those viruses can easily lock-up all personal files on the infected machine and later blackmail the computer’s user into making a ransom payment to the hacker who is behind the attack. Hopefully, the utility added by Microsoft will help with the protection of any important data documents that users value. In fact, the idea of secured, access-restricted folders isn’t new as a number of antivirus programs offer such a feature. However, many of them require the user to buy the premium version of the antivirus in order to be able to use the said utility. However, now that Controlled Folder Access has been added to Windows 10, even customers that do not have this kind of feature available on their antivirus, would be able to use it directly from their OS as a built-in option.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">How to enable it</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Here is a brief explanation of how you can access, enable and customize the Controlled Folder Access feature on your Windows 10:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The first thing you’d need to do is open your </span><b>Start Menu </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and type </span><b>Windows Defender Security Center</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Open the first result that shows up.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Once the new window opens, click on the </span><b>Virus and threat protection </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">option from the left panel and then select </span><b>Virus and threat protection settings</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from the right.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> On the newly-opened page, scroll down until you reach the </span><b>Controlled folder access </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">settings. In order to enable the feature, simply click on the </span><b>Off </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">button so that it changes to </span><b>On</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Next, you will need to select which folders you wish to protect. To do that, click on the </span><b>Protected folders </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">option and add any folders that you want to have protected. We advise you to add all folders that contain files which are important or valuable to you.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> If you want to whitelist any apps (i.e. allow them to have access to the protected folder), select </span><b>Allow an app through Controlled folder access </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">from the </span><b>Controlled folder access </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">options and add any apps that will be deemed trusted and would be allowed to access, create, delete and modify files that are inside the protected folders.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em><strong> *Extra Step*</strong></em> &#8211; There is also another way to quickly enable/disable Controlled folder access feature &#8211; simply copy-paste the following line </span><b>Set-MpPreference -EnableControlledFolderAccess </b><b><i>Enabled</i></b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in the PowerShell command line and hit </span><b>Enter</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This will enable the feature, to disable it, simply change the argument from </span><b>Enabled </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">to </span><b>Disabled</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. If you do not know how to access the PowerShell command line, simply type powershell in your </span><b>Start Menu </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">search bar and open the first result that gets displayed.</span></span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You still need to be careful!</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Even though this feature is an improvement towards having better protection for your files against Ransomware or other malicious apps, you must still remember that the best defense for your computer and your data is the one that you provide them with through your actions and your common sense. Always remember to stay safe online and to avoid any potential sources of malware such as illegal and shady websites or spam messages and sketchy web ads and offers. After all, it is much better to simply avoid dangerous programs than to have the security features of your machine put to the test as you can hardly ever know for sure which is going to come on top &#8211; the malware or the security of your system. </span></p>
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		<title>Google Chrome Security Improvements</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Browser security is currently more important than it has ever been with a constantly increasing number of shady applications and extensions that seek to exploit browser vulnerabilities. Every week more and more Browser Hijacker and Adware programs pop-up that try to change the default page of your browser, add a new toolbar, replace your starting</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Browser security is currently more important than it has ever been with a constantly increasing number of shady applications and extensions that seek to exploit browser vulnerabilities. Every week more and more Browser Hijacker and Adware programs pop-up that try to change the default page of your browser, add a new toolbar, replace your starting page and new tab page or trigger unwanted redirects to random sites. By doing this, the creators of this type of unwanted programs are able to generate substantial amounts of income through web advertising. However, not only is it unpleasant to have your browser taken over by some fishy piece of software but also it could potentially expose your computer to a number of serious risks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Because of all that we mentioned above, the developers of Google Chrome have been trying to improve the security of their browser by adding new features which could help the user detect and intercept unwanted and potentially hazardous software. Here, we will give you a general outlook on what those features do and how they function.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Built-in Chrome CleanUp</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Chrome CleanUp tool has been around for a while but up until now it was available only as a separate software utility for the browser that users could manually download and use. Now, however, the CleanUp tool would be available as a built-in feature that would work automatically.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> The idea of this utility is that it detects any potentially unwanted software on the computer that might interfere with the browser’s work and which might try to alter its previous settings. Whenever the tool detects such software, the user gets notified and also given the option to uninstall and remove the said software. It is also said that the API of the utility would be simplified and made more intuitive to use.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Hijacker warnings</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Browser Hijackers that seem to work as simple extensions but in reality seek to hijack your browser’s settings are very common and Google Chrome might have the answer for dealing with them. The next security feature that the browser will now have would be an improved warning pop-ups for add-ons that try to alter browser settings such as the starting page, the new tab page, the default search engine or the toolbar configuration. If Chrome detects any application which tries to mess with the browser’s settings, it would warn you by displaying a pop-up which also includes a button for removing the intrusive app.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Also, if the pop-up gets dismissed by the user or if more than one settings were changed at once, one could bring their browser back to its previous state by visiting this page <em><strong>chrome://settings/resetProfileSettings</strong></em> and resetting Chrome.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ESET detection</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The thing that would allow Google Chrome to detect potentially unwanted software is the implementation of ESET’s detection engine. This is what would enable the browser to spot any programs that might do something undesirable or that could be a potential security risks. However, Google’s product manager for Chrome, Philippe Rivard points out that this wouldn’t make Chrome an all-purpose detection tool for malware as the programs that would get detected by it will be only ones that fall under the unwanted software category according to Google’s policy alone. Still, though, this is a solid security improvement, at least on paper, its effectiveness is yet to be put to the test.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> On the flip side, some users are dissatisfied by the changes, claiming that now Google Chrome would be able to scan each program that you are downloading and installing on your PC and collect that data, further increasing the level and amount of personal information that Google Chrome would have access to. In the end, it is up to the individual user to decide whether or not Chrome is for them and if those new improvements are actually a step forward towards better online security or just another way to boost Google&#8217;s telemetry.</span></p>
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		<title>The TOR Browser &#8211; accessing The Onion Router</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Boris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A lot of our readers might have heard about Tor and the Tor Browser &#8211; a browsing program that allows for high online privacy when surfing the Internet. However, there is much more to Tor than that and here, we will outline the basic characteristics of the so-called Onion Router and the browser that allows</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A lot of our readers might have heard about Tor and the Tor Browser &#8211; a browsing program that allows for high online privacy when surfing the Internet. However, there is much more to Tor than that and here, we will outline the basic characteristics of the so-called Onion Router and the browser that allows you to make use of it.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Introduction</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><b>TOR </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">is an acronym that stands for The Onion Router &#8211; this is a web protocol that allows users to remain anonymous by hiding their online activities using an overlay network with a number of interconnected nodes. </span><b>The Tor Browser</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a modified version of Mozilla Firefox that makes utilizing Tor much easier than it has previously been. Currently, everyone who wishes to, regardless of how tech-savvy they are, could gain access to Tor via this dedicated browser. Therefore, if you are a customer who is concerned about their web privacy and wishes to keep their online activities hidden from website trackers, advertising companies or even whole governments, the Tor Browser can help you achieve that.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">How does The Onion Router work?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This browser review is going to differ from our previous ones because the Tor Browser has a very different focus and purpose when compared to other web browsers. Even high-security and privacy-oriented browsers such as <a href="http://malwarecomplaints.info/1180-2/">Brave</a> and the <a href="http://malwarecomplaints.info/epic-privacy-browser-name-says/">Epic Privacy Browser</a> still work very much like most other browsing programs that you might have encountered before. However, with Tor, things are different.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The use of Onion as a name is a metaphor that illustrates how one’s web browsing is protected and hidden underneath multiple layers just like the layers of an onion. In order to hide your IP address, this browsers reroutes your traffic through a preset circuit of nodes. There are many different circuits with nodes all over the world making the tracing of your IP rather difficult (however, not impossible!). In fact, it must be mentioned that the simple practice of using the Tor browser as opposed to any other program might lead to the attraction of unwanted attention to you. Still,though, this is by far one of the most effective ways for concealing your IP and consequently, your physical address as well. When using the Tor browser, you can even see what trackers would see as your IP address (your apparent IP) which would actually be the address of some of the nodes and not your actual IP.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Installation and Interface</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Tor browser is free and can be downloaded by anyone using a regular browser. Once you download and install Tor, you will have to install a support code which is made easier by the program’s installer. Tor supports versions for Windows (XP to 10) Mac and Linux. Users are usually advised to install the browser on a separate USB drive to further reduce the chance of getting traced. Also, before you begin to use the browser, you’d need to disclose what type of Internet connection you have &#8211; a censored (extra configuration needed) or a non-censored one.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Interface</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Tor Browser is basically Mozilla Firefox with heavy modifications under the hood and a couple of necessary extensions to help keeping your browsing private. However, the interface is similar to that of Firefox. On the starting page you are greeted with a plea for donations &#8211; this is how the whole Tor Project is financed, via voluntary donations. There is also search bar using the </span><b>Disconnect.me </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">tool which helps you use any popular search engine but without exposing and sending your query to the search provider so that your privacy is secured in that aspect as well.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Features/Add-ons (Privacy)</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Normally, we would first go over the performance of a browser before we talk about its features. However, with Tor, the additional features that it provides are different from those of any other browser and are probably the most important part of this program so we will mention them first.</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Torbutton add-on &#8211; Clicking on this button would allow you to see the Tor network settings and circuit that you are using as well as your apparent IP address. From there, you can also request a different chain of nodes for your current browsing session or only for when you are connecting to a certain website.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Security Panel &#8211; this can be accessed from the Torbutton and it allows you to easily set the level of privacy that you want to have on the browser. It is a simple slide that goes from low to high. At low (privacy), which is the default setting, all features of the browser would be enable whereas when it’s set to high, a lot of content including certain images would get blocked for security/privacy reasons. This makes it easier for regular users to configure the levels of privacy protection that they want to have with Tor.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Anonymity testing &#8211; Tor tests everything you do online for anonymity and if something could potentially compromise your private web experience, the browser notifies you about it. Also, the developers of the program warn their users that the mere using of their product cannot guarantee anonymity &#8211; it just helps with achieving it but the user would still need to be careful with what they do online.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Performance</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In order to provide its users with its high levels of secrecy and anonymity, Tor compromises with speed and performance. It is a very slow browser and takes quite some time to access pages due to the constant traffic rerouting through a number of different nodes. Even if you have the best Internet connection and a powerful PC, you will still find that the Tor Browser is nowhere near as quick as most other similar programs. That said, speed isn’t a top priority of Tor and if you truly want to remain anonymous online, you’d have to put up with the slower performance of the program.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Dark Web and <em>.onion</em></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">So far, we have only been talking about regular surfing with Tor. However, one extra feature that this browser offers is access to the so-called Dark Web &#8211; a hidden network of websites that end in </span><b>.onion</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Those sites cannot be accessed by regular browsers and do not show up on search results from regular search engines. This means that you won’t be able to access anything from the Dark web even if you use the Tor browser’s starting page search box as it is powered by regular search engines.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Such sites form the Dark Web are hidden for a reason and you have more than likely heard stories about them. It is true that the Dark Web is full of illegal, shady, obscure sites that we advise you to stay away from. However, this doesn’t mean that the Tor browser is solely used for criminal activities.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Conclusion</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Tor is all about privacy and even if it facilities illegal deeds, it also can help activists and freedom fighters struggling against oppressive regimes communicate with the outside world without fear of getting traced by the authorities. Also, Tor can serve regular users too, if they want to have better web privacy and are willing to sacrifice a faster browser performance. There is no doubt that nowadays web privacy is scarce and tracking of users’ online activities is a common practice which further increases the need for web browsers that allow for more privacy-oriented web experience.</span></p>
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		<title>Epic Privacy Browser &#8211; the name says it all</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In an online world of increasing lack of privacy and constant tracking of each user’s web activities, many people might be wondering if and how they can make it so that their privacy remains intact when they browse the World Wide Web. A number of options have been made available throughout the past years such</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In an online world of increasing lack of privacy and constant tracking of each user’s web activities, many people might be wondering if and how they can make it so that their privacy remains intact when they browse the World Wide Web. A number of options have been made available throughout the past years such as ad-blockers, incognito browser modes, the “Do not track” plug-ins and built in headers, etc. However, in order to make certain that your web privacy is as intact as possible, you’d have to implement all of the aforementioned methods and they might still not be enough to ensure that you aren’t getting tracked. This is where Epic Privacy Browser comes into play &#8211; the name should be enough for you to deduce what its purpose is and in the next lines, you will learn more about how it works so as to determine whether it is a desirable browsing option for you.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Introduction</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Epic Privacy Browser is a web-browser developed with the sole purpose of providing its users with the ability to safely browse the Internet without having their privacy invaded. As you surely already know, currently there is a huge number of ways in which most users’ privacy gets violated on a daily basis and unfortunately, most of the time this is actually legal. One cannot simply state that they don’t want to have their online activities traced and expect that their desire would be fulfilled. Therefore, another approach is needed in order to make one’s browsing more private. This is where Epic can be helpful with its many different features that have the sole purpose of making sure that what you do on the Internet does not become public and known by anyone except for you. You cannot expect from Epic to have the speed of Microsoft Edge, the versatility of Chrome or the customization capabilities of Opera, what you can expect from this browser is high levels of online privacy as this is the whole idea behind this program.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Interface</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">There isn’t really much to say about Epic’s interface. It is a browser based on Chromium so if you are familiar with Google Chrome, you should have no problem using it. Initially it looks and feels the same as Chrome and only once you’ve actually started exploring the web with it, will you notice some of the more important differences.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Performance</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Epic isn’t the fastest browser out there, especially if you are using its proxy servers but then again &#8211; it is not supposed to be. Privacy demands sacrifice and in this case, speed and performance would have to suffer a bit. That said, the browser is perfectly workable and if you aren’t annoyed by pages that do not load super quickly, then you should have no issue with Epic’s performance. Also, the built-in ad-blocker might actually help load certain pages faster than they would load with a browser that doesn’t block ads.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Constant incognito mode</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">If you have ever used some form of incognito mode on any other browser, then you should be familiar with this feature. However, with Epic, it has been taken to a whole other level as you are basically surfing in incognito/private mode by default &#8211; no history is being kept or anything else that would suggest what your previous browsing session has been about. As you will see when you open the main menu of the browser, there isn’t even a History button.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Features</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Any extra features that Epic has have been focused on making your web activities as private as possible. This browser combines all the popular privacy-protecting methods that you might have heard of as well as adding a few extra ones for additional protection.</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Built-in ad-blocker &#8211; A lot of modern browsers have integrated this feature and for a good reason. Ads are oftentimes way too annoying and intrusive for anyone to put up with them and they could also sometimes trigger security risks as well. The feature works well and is enabled by default so if you wish to stop it, you’d have to do that manually.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Proxy &#8211; This is likely one of the most important features that allow for better protected web privacy. On a regular browser, when a request to a website is made, the user’s IP gets sent to that site so that the site’s server would know where to send back a reply. Though this is the norm, having your IP send to a certain website can allow for your physical location to get approximately determined. With a proxy feature, the request and the reply get rerouted through another server that serves as a middle link for the web traffic. That way, if a website attempts to track you, the address that it would determine would be the address of the proxy server and not your own. In order to enable the proxy when using Epic, all you have to do is click on e the proxy button from the toolbar (top-left) and select </span><b>On</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. You can also choose which of the proxy servers to use as there are a couple of them.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Do not track &#8211; A lot of browsers have this feature but the difference between them and Epic is that when the Do not track header is enabled on Firefox or IE for example, the sites you visit can still decide to ignore it. This isn’t the case with Epic. Here, the Do not track is enabled by default and it actively prevents sites from keeping tabs on your web activities. Once you visit a site that is trying to track you, the browser will even display a small window showing you how many trackers have been blocked and giving you the option to turn of the tracking protection if you so desire.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Secure search &#8211; most search engines are also know for telemetry and data collection which is why Epic has a separate search tool that is powered by the most popular search engines but does not send any search data to them. It also does not keep any search history which is why you won’t see any search suggestions from previous search queries. Also, any queries made in Epic’s search tool are automatically rerouted through the proxy by default.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Issues</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Epic has some compatibility issues with certain websites as it might not be able to properly load some of them. Also, for privacy’s sake, there are very few extensions for this browser (less than 10!) but note that this is done for the sake of protecting your privacy as there are many extensions out there that are known for tracking their users and collecting personal data. Another thing more advanced users might be displeased with is the fact that the search tool does not support basic standard search modifiers and also doesn’t work smoothly in certain instances.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Conclusion</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Epic Privacy browser is exactly what its title says it is &#8211; web privacy at its finest. If you are concerned about getting traced when surfing the web and about having your personal data collected by all sorts of sites and online services, then you should probably give this browser a go. It isn’t the fastest, has certain bugs and glitches and lacks the customization and versatility of the more popular browsers but, as we already stated, its purpose is different and it is surely good at what it is made to do &#8211; keep your online privacy protected and secured.</span></p>
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		<title>Brave Browser Review &#8211; online Security and Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Back in the day ad-blockers weren’t something that you’d need to freely surf the internet uninterrupted. However, things have changed and the more time that goes by, the greater the amount of online intrusiveness that users face on daily basis when trying to do their work using their browser or to simply relax watching youtube</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Back in the day ad-blockers weren’t something that you’d need to freely surf the internet uninterrupted. However, things have changed and the more time that goes by, the greater the amount of online intrusiveness that users face on daily basis when trying to do their work using their browser or to simply relax watching youtube videos. Web-ads are all over the place and more often than not they tend to ruin one’s online experience by being highly obstructive and irritating. Another problem of modern-day web-surfing is the privacy and security issue. Malicious viruses have been around for quite some time but currently their distribution has been made easier than ever due to the boom of web advertisement. In terms of privacy, web-site tracking is everywhere now, on almost all sites that the user visits. Personal customer data is collected by sites on regular basis and in most cases the users have no idea what is going to happen with their information and how it is going to be used. All of the aforementioned problems is what has lead to the development of different ways to counteract the unpleasant reality of the current online world. The most commonly used tool are the ad-blocker browser extensions but this seems to be insufficient in many cases. Several browsers such as Firefox and Opera have made significant improvements in order to allow users to have more private and less obstructed browsing experience &#8211; Firefox introduced the </span><b>Do Not Track </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">feature and Opera has a very good built-in ad-blocker. Today, we will introduce you to yet another browser program which takes the aspects of privacy, security and unobstructed online surfing to the next level.</span></span></p>
<h2 id="introduction-to-brave-browser"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Introduction to Brave Browser</span></strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Brave is a newly developed browser based on Chromium &#8211; its creators are led by the co-founder of the Mozilla project, Brendan Eich and Brian R. Brody. According to the developers behind this browser, it’s main purpose is to allow the users to have safer and more privacy-oriented web experience. This is the main goal of Brave and in our opinion it does indeed deliver upon it. The program combines features from other browsers into one product making it a good choice not only for people who want to stay low-key and avoid getting tracked but also for users who simply want to be able to roam the online world without getting obstructed every five minutes by some irritating pop-up or some intrusive big web-banner.</span></p>
<h2 id="interface"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Interface</span></strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Brave’s interface is plain and clean but it looks good. There are very few buttons there &#8211; only the bookmark menu, the main menu of the browser and a bookmark button. As with all modern browsers, Brave supports tabs and one interesting thing about the way tabs are handled is that hovering over a certain tab displays a preview of the page. This can be helpful if a lot of tabs are opened at once but some users might find this feature to be distracting rather than helpful. Luckily, you can disable it from the browser’s settings.</span></p>
<h2 id="performance"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Performance</span></strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is a lightweight browser and it is a quite fast and well-performing one. In fact, it is no slower than the top browsers on the market meaning that it loads at least as fast as Chrome and Firefox. Therefore, if you decide to give it a try, performance shouldn’t be an issue. Also, the resources that it would require from your PC will not be too much meaning that the browser is unlikely to affect your system’s performance.</span></p>
<h2 id="features"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Features</span></strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As should already be obvious, most of Brave’s features are focused towards safety, security and privacy. Similarly to Opera, the browser has an integrated ad-blocker and also has a Do not Track feature that is enabled by default. Unless the user goes out of their way to disable it, website will not be able to track one’s activities and keep data records on them. In fact, many site owners have been disgruntled with Brave as it directly affects the revenue that they earn due to an increasing number of the users of this browser. Statistics about the number of blocked ads and trackers are also provided. If the users wants to, they can manually unblock the tracking and ads for a certain site while still having the rest of the websites blocked.</span></p>
<h2 id="extensions-lacking"><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Extensions (Lacking)</span></strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Something that might cause users to turn away from Brave is its lack of extension support. As odd and weird as this might sound, there is actually a reason behind this decision of the developers. As some Chrome extensions could potentially be malware or some other sort of unwanted software, the creators behind Brave have decided to leave out extensions support out of security and privacy concerns. This is sure to divide users between those who want to be able to customize their browsers via add-ons and those who value online privacy and security over additional extra features. In our opinion, Brave would be good for casual browsing but the lack of extensions could prevent customers to use the browser for more sophisticated tasks.</span></p>
<h1>Brave Browser Review</h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Having safe and secure web-experience is important and it is also nice to be able to surf the online world without getting interrupted by unpleasant advertising materials. There are certain tools and certain browsers that offer ways to achieve that but if you truly want a program dedicated to web safety and privacy, then Brave might be a good choice for you. However, you must bear in mind that due to the lack of extensions, the opportunity to customize the browser as well as the program’s versatility have been greatly limited. If you do not mind those limitations and do not need the browser for any sophisticated operations, then you will certainly enjoy Brave with its ability to remove any unpleasant web distractions and also with its superior speed and good performance.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Internet Explorer is one of the oldest browsing programs and for a long period of time it used to be the most popular web browser. However, at some point other, better browsing alternatives started to appear such as Firefox and Chrome. In addition, Explorer seemed to be falling behind in terms of security, performance, versatility,</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Internet Explorer is one of the oldest browsing programs and for a long period of time it used to be the most popular web browser. However, at some point other, better browsing alternatives started to appear such as Firefox and Chrome. In addition, Explorer seemed to be falling behind in terms of security, performance, versatility, etc. It eventually came to a point where more and more people would shun it as they saw Internet Explorer as a lesser browser unable to keep up with the more modern and better suited alternatives. There were a lot of reasons for users to prefer other browsers offer Explorer as it did indeed have a lot of issues. It used to be quite slow and its performance was nowhere near as good as it should have been. Also, being the most popular browser back in the day, it used to attract a lot of cyber attacks which was made worse by the fact that its security wasn’t all that good. However, things have changed and Internet Explorer is not what it used to be &#8211; today, it is once again one of the top browsers with a lot to offer to its users which is why we are making this review where you can learn more about the latest version of this browser.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Introduction</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As we already mentioned, IE with its newest version &#8211; 11, is currently considered one of the best browsers. It belongs to the top 5 browsing programs due to its good performance, high levels of security and satisfying array of settings and options that it can offer. Even though it is still not the fastest and lacks certain features that other browsers might have, IE 11 is undoubtedly a very good program that a lot of users might enjoy. Unfortunately, due to its past and the problems that it used to have, there are still a lot of people that see this program as undesirable or of lesser quality. However, many are sure to be left surprised if they gave the latest IE a go.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Interface</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Interface of Explorer 11 isn’t as slick or as interesting as that of other browsers that have a more modern look to them. It’s looks haven’t changed that much over the years and some might say it appears old school. However, there are actually a couple of neat and smart things about IE’s interface that we should point out here. For example, the search bar and the address bar have been combined within the so called </span><b><i>The One Box</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This helps save up space effectively increasing the space for that pages get to have on the PC screen. Also, The One Box and the tabs are on the same row to further decrease the space that is being taken. This might actually be considered bad by some users as the tabs might seem way too clustered together, especially if an individual likes to keep a lot of tabs opened at the same time. That said, there is certainly a bigger area for a page’s contents to be displayed. Additionally, as a way to save up even more space, there are very few browser buttons and the toolbar is minimalistic. Everything feels clean and plain without any unnecessary content to distract you.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Tabs and New tab page</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The new tab page is a good addition as it shows the most visited sites allowing for quicker access to them. This is similar to Opera’s Speed Dial and while it might not be as effective, it is still a neat feature. The tabbed interface of IE is something that can be expected from a modern browser and Explorer delivers upon that. The tabs can be pulled and dragged into new windows and if you pull a tab to the side of the screen, it will become a new window that takes exactly the half of the screen’s space.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Pinned websites</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Something interesting that isn’t present among other browsers is that IE allows you to pin down websites to your Taskbar. All you need to do is drag a website’s icon to your Window’s Taskbar and you got yourself a pinned site. Even the Taskbar icon of the pinned site would be changed according to the site’s design. This comes to further show how IE is all about the websites that the user visits and doesn’t try to push its own branding.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Extensions</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">While IE doesn’t have as many extension options as Firefox or Chrome, there is still a satisfyingly big collection of ways to expand the capabilities of your browser. There is also a nice feature to Explorer 11 that notifies you of an extension is consuming overly-high amounts of PC resources so that you know what could potentially be slowing your browser and PC performance. Another good thing about IE is that it also has an effective pop-up blocker to help you avoid interaction with unwanted banners and pop-ups.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Performance</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Currently, IE is considered the third fastest browser out there being outmatched in terms of speed only by Chrome and Firefox. The program has a good has good startup time and loads pages rather quickly. However, it seems to consume a bit more RAM than other popular browsers so if you do not have a lot of memory on your PC you might want to take that into consideration.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Security and privacy</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The security of IE has been greatly improved throughout the years and currently this is one of the most secure browsers out there so if you are seeking for a safe browsing program, Explorer 11 is certainly one of the best options out there. In terms of privacy, IE has a lot to offer as it is certainly a browser that values the personal space of its user. When installing Internet Explorer, the user is presented with a checkbox for “Do not track” that is set to on by default. If the user leaves it that way, websites would not be able to track the user’s activity. There is also another feature called Tracking Protection which blocks third-party tracking and cookie placement. All of this makes Internet Explorer one of the safest and most privacy-oriented browsers out there which is certainly a valuable trait, especially nowadays when almost all websites try to gather private data from their users.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Conclusion</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">If you are looking for a fast, secure browser that values one’s privacy and still offers a satisfying amount of options with a couple of unique and useful features, then you should probably try out Internet Explorer 11. A lot of changes have been made to IE and most of its past problems have been resolved. Currently, even though it is not the best browsing program in most aspects, it gets pretty close to the best ones making it a balanced browser with several highly-beneficial traits to its name.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In the next article, we will introduce you to a light-weight anti-malware program known as ByteFence. We will go over it’s most important characteristics and will give you information regarding its pros and cons. Introduction ByteFence is an anti-malware program which is advertised as an all around protection tool which could detect potential attacks from</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In the next article, we will introduce you to a light-weight anti-malware program known as ByteFence. We will go over it’s most important characteristics and will give you information regarding its pros and cons.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Introduction</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ByteFence is an anti-malware program which is advertised as an all around protection tool which could detect potential attacks from Trojans, Worms, Spyware. The program also heavily focuses on dealing with unwanted bundled applications, Adware, Crapware, Browser Hijackers, etc. However, the security tool should not be seen as an ultimate PC protection option since it isn’t a fully-functional antivirus program. Instead, the software application that we will be talking about here is more of a support protection tool focused on handling less harmful threats such as the ones we mentioned.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Installation</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The installation of the program is quick and smooth and has no confusing elements. Supposedly, before there have been opt-out options such as optional change of the default search engine or of the frontpage of the browser within the installation wizard but currently, there are no such settings. All you do is click on install and once the process is finished, you can choose whether to directly launch the program or not &#8211; that’s all. There were no bundled installs and no optional browser modifications which we believe is a positive trait.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Functionality</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As soon as we launched the program, it started an automatic Quick Scan of the whole PC. It took about 20 minutes to finish and a couple of potential risks came out in the results. The detected files weren’t harmful yet some of them could be considered suspicious (for example, a number of executables and .dll files) which is likely why the program detected them. What we noticed, however, was that during the Quick Scan, significant amounts of RAM was being used (1,5 GB on a machine with 4 GB of RAM). Of course, this is to be expected but it was worth noting.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1032" src="http://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-1.jpg" alt="" width="561" height="399" srcset="https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-1.jpg 852w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-1-800x569.jpg 800w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-1-768x546.jpg 768w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-1-810x576.jpg 810w" sizes="(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px" /> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">After the scan, we took a look at the program’s interface &#8211; it is simple and easy to navigate without any overly-complicated settings. However, you would still get all the mandatory options that most PC protection programs tend to provide. For example, in </span><b>Settings</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, you can schedule scans, manage quarantined files, manage update status and there is even a </span><b>Gamer Mode</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. There are five sections/tabs on the program’s interface: </span><b>Home</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><b>Scan</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><b>Browsers</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><b>Settings </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><b>Stats</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The one section that caught our attention was </span><b>Browsers</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1034" src="http://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-3.jpg" alt="" width="563" height="401" srcset="https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-3.jpg 882w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-3-800x570.jpg 800w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-3-300x214.jpg 300w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-3-768x547.jpg 768w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-3-810x577.jpg 810w" sizes="(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px" /></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Browser Security</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we already mentioned, ByteFence focuses on dealing with programs such as Adware, Browser Hijackers and other forms of lightweight software threats that most commonly tend to target the user’s browser. This is why it was nice to see that within the </span><b>Browsers </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">section, ByteFence provides a nice evaluation of the components of the browsers that are on the PC. In this tab, you can see the homepage of your browsers, their search providers and the extensions that they have. Next to each of those elements, you can see their security risk level according to ByteFence. For example, my Google Chrome frontpage has recently been changed by another application and the security tool regarded this as High Risk. This can be helpful since it enables you to quickly fix any such potential threats &#8211; all you’d need to do is check the element that is considered dangerous and then select </span><b>Fix Checked </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; the program will automatically deal with the possible hazard and rid your browser of it.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> However, on the downside of this feature of the program, only two out of the three browsers installed onto the computer were shown in the </span><b>Browsers </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">tab, the third browser (Opera) wasn’t listed there -we are unsure whether this should be attributed to the browser or to the anti-malware program.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1033" src="http://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-2.jpg" alt="" width="564" height="391" srcset="https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-2.jpg 880w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-2-800x555.jpg 800w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-2-300x208.jpg 300w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-2-768x532.jpg 768w, https://malwarecomplaints.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ByteFence-2-810x561.jpg 810w" sizes="(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px" /></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Real Time protection</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The security tool also provides Real Time scanning protection in order to detect any risks which might be currently coming towards your system. The scans, according to the program’s developers, are targeted at Malware and Crapware. However, there is no mention of protection against viruses such as Ransomware, which is why, as we mentioned earlier, one shouldn’t solely rely on ByteFence in order to keep their PC safe &#8211; an additional antivirus program is required to stop bigger threats such as Ransomware.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Free version vs Paid version</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The free version of the program is said to provide all the scanning settings of the program but without the option to use the tool to remove any detected threats. However, once we downloaded the free version, things were different. The program had full functionality and we were allowed to both scan and fix any detected threats. However, there is a 14 day trial after which the user would need to buy the full product if they wish to continue using the program. It is up to the individual’s opinion which option is better, but it should be noted that the free version, as described on the official website of the software application isn’t the same as what you get once you download it.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Summary</span></strong></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Pros</span></strong></em></p>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> No bundled installs and no unwanted browser modifications during installation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Clean and easy-to-navigate interface.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Low resource usage when not scanning.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Browser protection.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> No ads.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><em><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Cons</span></strong></em></p>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Detects files that aren’t harmful.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Might cause slowdown during scan on weaker machines due to high RAM use.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Might not detect all browsers that are on the PC and list them in the </span><b>Browsers </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">section.</span></span></li>
</ol>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Conclusion</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ByteFence can be an useful tool for anyone who would like to add an extra layer of defense to their computer, especially against undesirable malware programs that might target one’s browser. However, it should be kept in mind that the program might still come with certain flaws which need to be addressed and ironed out in order for the program to become even better at its job.</span></p>
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