Similar to Threat Fire? Wonder if the two would play nice together.

Thanx for The useful tool-tips Doc.

No notes on their site about conflicts. Threatfire's a 'sniffer', Mamutu's a realtime system and email, etc. monitor based on behavior of software. As it learns, you'll get warnings which you decide to investigate or not, and has 'rules' - monitor, exclude or forbid. Read about it on Emsisoft's site. This is a good one.

Also... very small memory footprint.

I did, the whole article. I especially like the emergency kit. This is a keeper Doc. Thanks.

Got it - now to play with it and see how the puppy works!  Thanks doc.

yes a keeper  thanks

It gives you one year of full coverage with the full version. Mine expires July 15 2012. After that it's like Norton or McAffee....it'll cost you $50 US for another year and you get all updates and stuff for that year free.

One gripe.  It is good at flagging suspicious activity, but lousy at what it is!  I had one that popped up and said such and such was looking like a trojan.  Problem was the path was cut off, so I did not know what the actual program was.  After 15 minutes of digging, I found it.  It was Live Update from Symantec.

Not knocking it but I was in the beta when it was first being developed.  It has one flaw that all heuristic detection software has--spotty ability to correctly identify actual malware.

I found it minimally effective and during the beta it was very slow and cpu intensive--though I'm sure it is improved some by this time and pc capability is a lot better now as regards to speed and cpu/memory use.

I'd really like to see some evaluations by professionals of it.

NOTE: as of this post the giveaway-of-the-day for this is expired.

Maybe then, now not at all cpu intensive. it's discovery rates vary with the degree of paranoia you wish: The more paranoid, the more true and false positives... signature recognition software characteristically depends on infections and on updates. You can get hit in the gap.

Best? stay away from shady sites (not fool proof) and don't open unknown sourced emails (not fool proof).

Nothing is 100%, but this software's stats are excellent.

I always suggest having a variety of options installed in your pc when it comes to malware (as long as they don't conflict and bog down your system excessively).

For a couple of years I could catch things with A-Squared which nothing else seemed to catch--but A-Squared  didn't do as good a job overall. It was great for starting a cleaning job on an already infected system.

I went ahead and tried it and it is much smoother and faster.  It has some useful features--like process-by-process monitoring.

For free, you can't go wrong but I would NOT rely on this as my primary anti-malware.

Sin... it has received excellent reviews... hey, it's free and use it as you wish. If it saves you grief, I'm happy.

Got the first upgrade today.

Not trying to bash Doc and it's fine for what it is--but there isn't a piece of purely  heuristic software out there yet that is competent as stand alone protection.

What it is good for is the customization of specific file protections.  Say you have a program that you are concerned will be targeted by malware--Mamutu can be pointed at that executable and gives a shot at one more layer of defense.  That's the real merit of the program.  It is great in its ability to be customized and filtered and it isn't worthless...but it misses a lot that other things can pick up.

If you are good at understanding how to grant permissions and recognize processes on your PC it can be very helpful at catching attempts to inject controls on your machine but many of its warnings will be ones that are normal processes.  Like Zone Alarm in the old days, you'll spend some time tuning up the application to run effortlessly with your software.