Thread: Norman Malware Cleaner 2010.01.14

Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman application that can be used to identify as well as eliminate exact malicious software (malware).

Note that it must not be used as an alternate for operation usual proactive antivirus protection, but somewhat as an immediate tool to handle systems that are previously tainted.

By downloading as well as running Norman Malware Cleaner it will fresh an tainted system entirely:

- Kill running processes that are tainted
- Eliminate infections from disk (with ActiveX components as well as browser helper objects)
- Disclose as well as eliminate rootkits
- Repair accurate registry values
- Eliminate references formed by malware in hosts file
- Eliminate windows firewall rules for malicious programs

Note

To give Norman Malware Cleaner the top operational conditions feasible, we suggest that you start the PC in Safe mode ahead of running the program.

To do this, strike the F8 key on your keyboard throughout startup, before Windows starts, as well as choose Safe mode from the menu that appears.

Pressing the F8 key in at presently the right time can be a slight complicated (subsequent to the firmware POST path completes, but prior to Windows show graphical output). If the F8 method does not work, repeat the process, but press the F8 key faster, or press it quite a few times.

On several (older) PC, the F8 key system might not work. In these Windows editions you can also organize your PC to start in Safe mode through the (msconfig).