Norman Malware Cleaner

Well if we're talking Malware apps, now I haven't used Norman yet but I'd guess to say that SAS and Malwarebytes to be better.

 

Ahh the old thread-mining.

Always room for SAS and Malwarebytes for spyware, but this is a good back-up AV scanner/removal tool. Haven't had any problems using it.

 

Just noticed F-Secure's easy clean is due for an update (over a month old).
http://www.f-secure.com/labs/products/3/

Norman's malware cleaner has been updated two days ago.

 

Not in totality, DasFox. My above post was for a poster who was stating his ranking of AM products without providing evidence. Only ranting that extensive tests where done, but he could not show them

Anyways, I personally am not competent enough to gauge which product is better or worse. I can at best guess... And all I can say is that: while SAS and MBAM are powerful anti-spyware. They have very low ( or no ) virus detection. Incomparison, Norman can detect all most all threats (with varying accuracies, in each type ).

 

No Balatsokas did really do actual tests.

Only some cultures have different views on politeness and 'open discussion' and some people have trouble dealing with critism

The type of respond (you gave ) set him off to a state of mocking self pittyness/self declared martyr (Balatsokas a former poster )

Both leads to nothing IMO,

Cheers Kees

 

Different backgrounds, different native languages, I can see how easily people may be taken the wrong way.

In my 'limited' experience, I'd still prefer Cureit and Kaspersky, but the thing with the Norman tool, not only can it be downloaded straight from their home page, it's scan uses less resources, is quicker, and by default, scans all hard drives.

The only fault I see, is that it doesn't ask a user what to do once it finds a file, it removes it. However, after running it on several machines with various programs, ranging from portable and obscure programs, I have seen only the one false positive (flock browser setup file - deleted it, didn't need it anyway!). Otherwise, it gave the same as Kaspersky and CureIt, all clean.

Norman Malware Cleaner, from what I can tell, it's a decent tool.

 

Ok, do you have any details of his test/results ??

I really think I mocked him away. But really, if you have definitive data there is no need to be afraid. Sure if the facts may reveal the ugly truth and there will be some resistance, but remember :

 

Balatsakos is still lurking, just check his post history, some as of a couple of weeks ago. Everything is ok.

So anyone used this cleaner with positive results?

A tool to clean Conficker 'family' is available here:
http://www.norman.com/Virus/Virus_removal_tools/54879/en

 

I usually recommend to friends/family who call for some help.
With Norman there are no settings to fiddle and you just have to hit scan. It will detect and kill automatically. Thus making it virtually idiot-proof.

Till now no complaints.

 

How does this program update?

 

It's a single exe file containing all definitions. To update you have to download a new file (about 30MB).

It can run from a USB stick, and doesn't create any additional files or folders. To remove, just delete the exe.

Access the file through www.norman.com and the link in the bottom-right, or http://www.norman.com/Virus/Virus_removal_tools/24789/

 

Cool, thanks for the info.