Sophos Anti-Rootkit

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Removing rootkits without compromising system integrity is particularly challenging and needs to be done with care.

Our free software, Sophos Anti-Rootkit, finds and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer.

What is a rootkit?
The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or administrator.

Here are some key features of "Sophos Anti Rootkit":

· Scans running processes, windows registry and local hard drives for rootkits.
· Identifies known rootkits and selects, by default, files for removal which will remove the rootkit component of the malware without compromising OS integrity.
· Allows users to remove unidentified hidden files, but does not allow removal of essential system files when hidden by an identified rootkit.
· Once the user has run a scan, the screen prompts the user through the necessary steps until every rootkit has been removed.
· Users can switch between the GUI and command-line functionality.
· Both context sensitive and command-line help are available.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is an anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware. It includes a number of features, including a built in protection monitor that blocks malicious processes before they even start.

Version 1.30 fixed minor issues with protection module, miscellaneous problems with heuristics.

Norman Malware Cleaner

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Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware). Note that it should not be used as a substitute for running normal proactive antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected.

By downloading and running the program below it will clean an infected system completely:

• kill running processes that are infected
• remove infections from disk (including ActiveX components and browser helper objects)
• reveal and remove rootkits
• restore correct registry values
• remove references created by malware in hosts file
• remove windows firewall rules for malicious programs

Ad-Aware

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Ad-Aware provides protection from known Spyware including: Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.

With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the next level.

With Lavasoft's all new Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology, you will not only be protected from known content, but will also have advanced protection against many of their unknown variants. To further protect you, Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition also has the capability to scan and list Alternate Data Streams (ADS) in NTFS enabled volumes. In combination with the new scanning engine, Ad-Aware SE will scan your computer faster and more thoroughly than ever before!

AVG Anti-Spyware

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Anti-Virus programs offer insufficient protection against urgently growing threats like Trojans, Worms, Dialers, Hijackers, Spyware and Keyloggers. That's where the protection of ewido anti-spyware begins and supplements existing security applications to create a complete security system - because only a complete security system works effectively.

• NEW Completely renewed user interface
• NEW Possibility to create exceptions
• NEW Shredder for secure file deletion
• NEW XP Antispy
• NEW BHO Viewer
• NEW LSP Viewer
• Heuristics to detect unknown threats
• Scanning and cleaning of the Windows registry
• Support for NTFS-ADS scanning
• Daily database updates
• Patch proof by using strong signatures
• Analysis tools (startup, connections and processes)
• Intelligent online-update
• Scan inside archives
• Secure detection and deletion of DLL-Trojans
• Generic crypter detection through emulation
• Generic binder detection
• Free E-Mail Support
• Automatic Clean Engine
• Quarantine for suspicious files
• Multilingual User Interface

Additional features of the Plus-Version

• NEW Scheduled scans
• Real-time monitoring of the entire system
• Memory Scan detects active threats
• Self-protection at kernel layer guarantees gapless monitoring
• Automatic online-update

This setup contains the free as well as the paid version of ewido anti-spyware. After the installation, a free 30-day trial version containing all the extensions of the full version will be activated. At the end of the trial, these extensions will be deactivated and the program will turn into a feature-limited freeware version. The purchased license code can be entered at any time.

This product was formerly knows as Ewido Security Suite

HijackThis

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In depth tool for scanning your computer for Spyware.

HijackThis scans areas of your registry and hard drive and returns a log of items which it detects. As this tool is recommended for advanced users only, we recommend you run a scan and then post your log file on a support forum, where someone will be able to suggest which entries to remove.

Spybot Search & Destroy

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Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware.

But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too :)