![]() ![]() Here is how the special tools were testedĪll the special tools were used on already infected systems, as is the case in everyday use.Ģ. Were the active malware components completely removed?ģ. How often did the security package or special tool perfectly remove and repair everything? Many came out on top, and a few floppedĭid any harmless file remnants remain, and were all the changes to the system reversed?Ĥ. Here is how the protection packages performed The most difficult part of this test: almost everything involved manual labor, because many individual queries have to be answered for infected systems and when cleaning up and restoring the system. The only protection package that removed all 38 tested attacks without leaving any remnants at all – not even harmless traces – is Kaspersky Internet Security. This is followed by the products from Bitdefender, Avast, G Data, Avira and Symantec. They left only 4 to 9 harmless file remnants. In 3 cases, Malwarebytes was unable to remove the detected active malware components.īut the system was repaired and free of malware threats. Microsoft's Security Essentials also had the same problem in 3 cases, but this was compounded by 2 undetected malware threats. Bringing up the rear is Enigma Software with SpyHunter. While it did capably solve 32 test cases, in 6 instances it did not even detect the attacker. The best tool in this category also comes from Kaspersky – the Virus Removal Tool. In the 19 separately-conducted test cases, all the attackers were eliminated, and each system was restored error-free. Even harmless file remnants were no longer found. Bitdefender Rescue Disk worked almost as well. ![]() It left harmless file remnants behind in only 3 cases. The rescue tools Heise Disinfect and G Data BootMedium detected all 19 malware threats and deleted the dangerous components. But there was practically no instance where the harmless file remnants were cleaned up as well. Microsoft Windows Defender as an offline version and Avast Rescue Disk did always detect all malware threats, but in 2 cases each they were unable to remove the active components of the malware. ![]() The remaining performance, however, was good. The Microsoft Safety Scanner failed to detect 2 malware threats at all and was unable to remove the active component on one of the attackers. The DE Cleaner Antibot did perform well on 14 attackers, a total of 5 attackers went totally undetected. That was the weakest performance in the test. ![]()
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