About Emsisoft

Focus

Emsisoft's aim is to produce and sell the best antivirus software for home and business use. The rapidly growing company is a leading European supplier of behavior-based technology for detecting malicious code such as viruses, trojans, spyware, keyloggers and other malware. More than 5 million users worldwide use products of Emsisoft.

The company

Emsisoft is a privately held company located in Austria, EU. The company balances positively since it was founded in 2003, without foreign capital.

The name "Emsi" comes from the initials of the founder "M C".

Products

• Emsisoft Anti-Malware specializes in the recognition and elimination of all kinds of malignant software, so-called Malware. It contains a file scanner that features two major antivirus scan engines (Ikarus + A2) and a guard, which use signature-based scans and behavior analysis to recognize and block potentially damaging behavior.
• Emsisoft Mamutu is a pure guard program that recognizes and blocks dangerous software through behavior analysis. This was launched in 2007 and demonstrates the core competence of Emsisoft.
• Emsisoft Online Armor Firewall complements Emsisoft Anti-Malware with a rock solid firewall - the perfect allround protection against hackers. Online Armor does not only monitor the network traffic, but also critical system internal actions.
• Emsisoft HiJackFree (free for private use) is a component of Anti-Malware that assists experienced users in manually searching for and eliminating Malware. It offers extensive features for editing system-internal processes.
• Emsisoft Freeware Tools. Emsisoft also offers a wide range of free programs that can be used to make your PC even more safe.

Management

• Founder and head of the business is Christian Mairoll, who has been actively pursuing the vision of a virtual company since 2003. All 22 employees are distributed worldwide but work together as if they are in the same office. He was awarded in the Austrian "Constantinus" IT prize in 2005 for this innovative business management concept.

Memberships

• Microsoft Certified Partner & Small Business Specialist:
  
• Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP):
  
• Member of the German shareware association: Deutsche Shareware Autoren Vereinigung (SAVE):
  
• Member of the Organization of Independent Software Vendors (OISV):
  
• Member of the Alliance of Security Analysis Professionals (ASAP):
  
• Member of the hpHosts community: