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FAQs

Will BlackFog slow down my machine performance?

BlackFog has been specifically designed to have little to no impact on your machine in terms of performance. If anything you should notice your machine is noticeably faster because it is preventing the transfer of vast amounts of information from your machine over the network.From a CPU perspective BlackFog uses around 1-5% (depending on Operating [...]

2024-01-28T20:39:42+00:00June 22nd, 2016||

What is BlackFog’s resource consumption like?

From a system resource perspective BlackFog was designed to be very lightweight. In fact, the BlackFog executable occupies approximately 2MB of drive space and the whole package around 20MB. It has been developed in the same language as the underlying operating system and has no dependency on other runtime frameworks, so it is very [...]

2024-01-28T20:42:34+00:00June 22nd, 2016||

Why do I need BlackFog if I have an Anti-Virus product already?

Anti-Virus products focus on what to do AFTER you have been infected. BlackFog focuses specifically on real-time network threat detection and preventing spyware and ransomware from infecting your machine in the first place. BlackFog works in conjunction with your existing AV solution. Just like you would go to the Dr. when you are sick, [...]

2024-01-28T20:44:49+00:00February 23rd, 2015||

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