HitManPro

plat

Level 29
Top Poster
Sep 13, 2018
1,793
It's a very good scanner and actively developed still. Sometimes it has issues with the cloud and hangs on an item so I have to start it over, which is a little annoying. It was not compatible with my hard drive when I was running an Insider build, causing system-wide freezing. In that case I had to post at Wilders for help (which I got in a timely way) as email support can be more than 48 hours sometimes. :unsure: I use it regularly for the right-click context menu to scan downloads and scripts. People complain that it picks up a lot of tracking cookies and calls them "threats" but seriously, you can disable cookie detection in the Settings if it bugs you. I've found that any cookies HitmanPro detects are a valuable thing actually, teaching me to adjust the browser cookie and privacy policy and AdGuard to a stricter level. Cookies can do a lot nowadays-- if HitmanPro detects even one, I'm busy cutting it off at the pass.

I would not pay full price for it, getting it for a sales price, yes. Then I find it worth having on my system. It's mainly a preference thing. Others may prefer EEK or NPE, both of which are free and really good at finding things, maybe too good in NPE's case (fp).
 

South Park

Level 9
Verified
Well-known
Jun 23, 2018
431
I've been using the free version for years as a second-opinion scanner. By default, it runs a quick scan daily and a full scan monthly. I've seen a few false-positives on new/obscure software, but overall I think it's a valuable tool.
 

Viking

Level 26
Verified
Honorary Member
Top Poster
Well-known
Oct 2, 2011
1,531
I have been using Hitmanpro for years, sometimes I use the free version, sometimes the paid version. Currently I'm using the paid version on my main machine My other 2 machines, I use the free version.
 

Cortex

Level 26
Verified
Top Poster
Well-known
Aug 4, 2016
1,465
I use HMP.A on this main desk PC, at times I think it may be unneeded but uses very little resources & I've not found conflicts, when licence expires I will renew - Frequent updates these days.
 

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