MooSoft The Cleaner Free

[maymoons]

is MooSoft The Cleaner Free (http://www.moosoft.com/)good product, what is your opinion?

[ErikAlbert]

I wouldn't recommend it to less-knowledgeable users (including myself), when I look at the screenshots and if you don't know what you are doing, the cleaning becomes risky. I have at least a 100% safe method to clean my system partition.

[Perman]

Hi,

Free? I did not see a word of free on its web site, only the 25% discount.

Your in-sight please.

[ErikAlbert]

-{ Quote: "Free? I did not see a word of free on its web site, only the 25% discount." }-
Me neither, $30 minus 25%, the download itself is free of course. ;D

[Bubba]

-{ Quote: "Free? I did not see a word of free on its web site, only the 25% discount.

Your in-sight please." }-The below link mentions the free version.

http://www.moosoft.com/TheCleaner/Download

-{ Quote: "Version Information
The Cleaner v5
Free for personal use
Windows 98/ME/NT/2K/XP/Vista
August 31, 2007 " }-

and also here (http://www.moosoft.com/TheCleaner/TheCleaner), with a The Cleaner freeware download link.

Bubba

[MikeNAS]

GUI is horrible. So hard to use it. Sweepi is my new best and only cleaner program.

-MikeNAS

[lucas1985]

MooSoft's The Cleaner is an anti-trojan, not a junk/temp cleaner :)

[maymoons]

this is screenshot;
http://www.moosoft.com/imagesv5/tc5_home.jpg
and it is free for personal use;
compare with paid version (http://www.moosoft.com/TheCleaner/Compare)
this product was very popular anti trojan soft,
but now?

[Perman]

Hi,

Thanks, for the link. Bubba and Mymoons.

It is basically a scanner. But the scanning speed is very slow. Effectiveness I do not know. But..

It will be a nice add-on to scanners collector.

IMO, it is a nice one(free at least), but not a must have one.

I have installed it(my disk has a room for it), and will keep it for a little while, to see whether it can produce the kind of catch of day surprise for me. With DeepFreeze on staff, I highly doubt it will ever produce a surprise for me.

Take care.

[MikeNAS]

-{ Quote: "MooSoft's The Cleaner is an anti-trojan, not a junk/temp cleaner :)" }-

Sorry! My mistake.

[ErikAlbert]

I ran "The Cleaner v5.0.0.141 Free Edition" and this is my personal story :

It found 7 threats on my system partition !!!
1) Program Files\GRETECH\GomPlayer\Dodge.dll
2) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\licenseui.zip.dll
3) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\zlsvc.zip.dll
4) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\ConfigWizard.zip.dll
5) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\zlsvc.zip.dll
6) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\zui.zip.dll
7) Script Sentry\ScriptSentry.zip (= install file of ScriptSentry)
The are all infected with the malware called "Win32.Suspect".

As you can see 3 softwares are suspicious : GomPlayer, ZoneAlarm Free and ScriptSentry
7 false positives or what ? Some of them have DOUBLE EXTENSIONS and they are all FREEWARES. Very suspicious !!!
Please give me your opinion or I have to uninstall ZoneAlarm Free (my latest install) immediately.

[Perman]

Hi Erik:

What a surprising catch of the day! Amazing.

Have you sought for a second opinion ? such as the mighty SAS, or even Trojan Hunter free scan ?

Good luck.

[ErikAlbert]

SUPERAntiSpyware didn't find anything. No trojanated ZoneAlarm. Weird.

[Hairy Coo]

ErikAlbert,

Probably to do with the optional toolbar -see here (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=194609)

Would consider its absolutely nothing to worry about

[ErikAlbert]

-{ Quote: "ErikAlbert,

Probably to do with the optional toolbar -see here (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=194609)

Would consider its absolutely nothing to worry about" }-
I unmarked the optional toolbar, so it wasn't installed.
So I've spent 48 minuts + another 20+ minuts on false positives ?

[Hairy Coo]

Without wasting a vast amount of time considering each ZA entry,my attitude always is that you have to trust well known security apps,.especially leaders like ZA.

I would say some of the entries like licenseui.zip.dll are obviously false positives.

a common question apparently (http://www.castlecops.com/p782657-Double_Extensions.html)

[ErikAlbert]

-{ Quote: "Without wasting a vast amount of time considering each ZA entry,my attitude always is that you have to trust well known security apps,.especially leaders like ZA.

I would say some of the entries like licenseui.zip.dll are obviously false positives.

a common question apparently (http://www.castlecops.com/p782657-Double_Extensions.html)" }-
Thanks the forum Firewalls said the same thing.
My clean system partition seems to be very useful for checking a scanner on false positives ;D

[maymoons]

Q: What does Win32.Suspect mean? (^) (http://www.moosoft.com/TheCleaner/V5FAQ)

A: Win32.Suspect is the designation given to programs that pass a series of diagnostics and are found to be suspicious. It doesn't mean the software in question is malicious. It suggests that further investigation may be required.

[Hairy Coo]

Time for a whitelist

[jfd15]

i thought that "The Cleaner" used to be an excellent anti-trojan program...

[ErikAlbert]

-{ Quote: "i thought that "The Cleaner" used to be an excellent anti-trojan program..." }-
It probably still is, but what can you expect from a program ? It has no brain, no intelligence, no intuition, no creativity, ... like human beings and that's why it has false positives. Programs can only compare, but can't think.

[DasFox]

The older versions of the Cleaner seemed much better.

http://images.pcworld.com/downloads/graphics/screenshots/8183f.jpg

[the Tester]

I wasn't aware of the free scanner.
I had a license in the past and found the program to be easy to use.The Moosoft support forum was always helpful too.

[mlurp]

-{ Quote: "is MooSoft The Cleaner Free (http://www.moosoft.com/)good product, what is your opinion?" }-

I couldn't find any info on the item. So can you gives us some info. It is a 6.+ MB free D/L, but I would need a lot more info before I even D/L it. Thanks

[mlurp]

Maybe it found what ZoneLabs already found. Just ghuessing I stopped using Zonelabs products when they got to big and like most companies wa a hard time with several updates and upgrades. In this day and age you get what you buy or don't by. Lot of nasties out there to be using for main firewall and anti viru free products, IMHO.

-{ Quote: "I ran "The Cleaner v5.0.0.141 Free Edition" and this is my personal story :

It found 7 threats on my system partition !!!
1) Program Files\GRETECH\GomPlayer\Dodge.dll
2) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\licenseui.zip.dll
3) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\zlsvc.zip.dll
4) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\ConfigWizard.zip.dll
5) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\zlsvc.zip.dll
6) Windows\system32\ZoneLabs\lib\zui.zip.dll
7) Script Sentry\ScriptSentry.zip (= install file of ScriptSentry)
The are all infected with the malware called "Win32.Suspect".

As you can see 3 softwares are suspicious : GomPlayer, ZoneAlarm Free and ScriptSentry
7 false positives or what ? Some of them have DOUBLE EXTENSIONS and they are all FREEWARES. Very suspicious !!!
Please give me your opinion or I have to uninstall ZoneAlarm Free (my latest install) immediately." }-

[aigle]

Hi, i wonder why u people are wasting time on it.

[ellison64]

-{ Quote: "Hi, i wonder why u people are wasting time on it." }-

Have to agree.Judging by their forums latest build version 5 is very buggy ,with some known bugs (scan hangs scanning certain files) and no eta for a fix.I guess the demise of TDS3 was the beginning of the end for the AT.
ellison

[Meriadoc]

The Cleaner anyway I believe was a very popular AT at one time especially in US. I did look at it several years back but TDS was always my program of choice. Being free I suppose it will survive.

[KoRnGtL15]

What is TDS if I may ask?

-{ Quote: "The Cleaner anyway I believe was a very popular AT at one time especially in US. I did look at it several years back but TDS was always my program of choice. Being free I suppose it will survive." }-

[lucas1985]

-{ Quote: "What is TDS if I may ask?" }-
See here (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10) :)

[mlurp]

Ok let me try again. I have the paid version of Trojan Hunter, I also use Super Anti Spyware paid life time updates, Spyware Blaster paid auto updates, Spyware Gaurd, Ad-Aware with Ad Watch paid, AVG Internet Security (Antivirus/Firewall) I run A-Square free, MRU Blaster, DustBuster XP,
Window Washer, Registery tune Up and Windows XP Prefetch cleaner.
Will this cleaner (Trojan) help me or will I be overloaded? Any feed back please, thanks.

[gerardwil]

I would be fine with your current setup and I think it does not add any extra's.

Well that's just my opinion.

Gerard

[KDNeese]

I wouldn't recommend this program just from my own experience, but this may have been something simply particular to my computer... idk. When I first updated it, it took forever. Out where I live the only internet access is dial-up, and I swear it seemed like it downloaded definitions for half the day. Then when I tried to scan with it, I started the scan and let it run while I went and did other things. I came back about 4 hours later and it had only scanned like 10% of my files, and I don't have that much on my computer. It takes SAS about 20 minutes to do a full scan, just for comparison purposes. Also, my CPU was running at 100% and my system was nearly frozen up. Needless to say, this piece of software was quickly uninstalled. So as far as scanning capabilities and what it finds, I can't answer that question, as I didn't want to wait for a scan that was going to take over 2 days to complete at the rate it was going. I would pass on this one.

[Huupi]

-{ Quote: "Ok let me try again. I have the paid version of Trojan Hunter, I also use Super Anti Spyware paid life time updates, Spyware Blaster paid auto updates, Spyware Gaurd, Ad-Aware with Ad Watch paid, AVG Internet Security (Antivirus/Firewall) I run A-Square free, MRU Blaster, DustBuster XP,
Window Washer, Registery tune Up and Windows XP Prefetch cleaner.
Will this cleaner (Trojan) help me or will I be overloaded? Any feed back please, thanks." }-

I think you should be very safe with all these,and adding whatever more is IMO bit redundant. ;)

[ErikAlbert]

WOW. I count 12 softwares, The Cleaner would be #13, quite a collection.
I only use 4 softwares, they aren't even mentioned. Poor me. :-[