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- Aug 2, 2015
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Can find nothing about this company " Simply Super Software "
Even Wikipedia returns "no" results, will keep digging
UK based, their Privacy Policy looks good: Trojan Remover - Privacy Policy
The software is still being updated: Trojan Remover - Recent Program Changes
I think it would be safe to try, they look legit
Just remember to create a backup or restore point,
just to be safe.
Even Wikipedia returns "no" results, will keep digging
UK based, their Privacy Policy looks good: Trojan Remover - Privacy Policy
The software is still being updated: Trojan Remover - Recent Program Changes
I think it would be safe to try, they look legit
Just remember to create a backup or restore point,
just to be safe.
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I have used Trojan Remover in the past, but it was many years ago, and had forgotten about it until I visited its website just now.
I installed it and ran a scan, which identified two items. You get alerts as soon a something is detected, rather than at the end of the scan.
The first one is a service used by a PUP I have installed. The second one is a debug entry used by AVG PC TuneUp's program deactivator.
Tencent PC Manager, and Malwarebytes also flag debug entries from PC TuneUp. I have a number of programs deactivated, and MBAM and PC Manager detect the debug entry for every one. However, since I was alerted when Trojan Remover detected the first entry and chose to exlcude it, I got no more warnings. There were no false positives, which is good. Some of the other trojan removal software I've tried in the last 12 months of so, have had lot of problems with false positives.
When you click on the Scan button, Trojan Remover only scans for active malware, so for example download folders are not scanned. However, there is a scan Folder(s) option to do a custom scan, you can also do context menu scans. I did a scan of one of my download folders. This folder has hundreds of installers in it, including many PUPs. TR detected just 7 PUPs, which is a dissapointing result, considering Dr Web detects over 200 PUPs in this folder. I decided to see how TR fares against malware. I found two very small malware packs I have on my computer, one of which is recent, and the second one from last years. There were only ten files in total, and TR detected nothing.
After testing it, I read the following on the TR website:
So, to be fair, while the detection rate was poor, it's forgivable, considering it's designed to be used alongside other security software, to pick up things they miss. Perhaps someone else would like to test it as well. It seems like an interesting product, and doesn't seem to have any issues with false positives.
This is a screenshot of TR runnning a scan:
I installed it and ran a scan, which identified two items. You get alerts as soon a something is detected, rather than at the end of the scan.
The first one is a service used by a PUP I have installed. The second one is a debug entry used by AVG PC TuneUp's program deactivator.
Tencent PC Manager, and Malwarebytes also flag debug entries from PC TuneUp. I have a number of programs deactivated, and MBAM and PC Manager detect the debug entry for every one. However, since I was alerted when Trojan Remover detected the first entry and chose to exlcude it, I got no more warnings. There were no false positives, which is good. Some of the other trojan removal software I've tried in the last 12 months of so, have had lot of problems with false positives.
When you click on the Scan button, Trojan Remover only scans for active malware, so for example download folders are not scanned. However, there is a scan Folder(s) option to do a custom scan, you can also do context menu scans. I did a scan of one of my download folders. This folder has hundreds of installers in it, including many PUPs. TR detected just 7 PUPs, which is a dissapointing result, considering Dr Web detects over 200 PUPs in this folder. I decided to see how TR fares against malware. I found two very small malware packs I have on my computer, one of which is recent, and the second one from last years. There were only ten files in total, and TR detected nothing.
After testing it, I read the following on the TR website:
So, to be fair, while the detection rate was poor, it's forgivable, considering it's designed to be used alongside other security software, to pick up things they miss. Perhaps someone else would like to test it as well. It seems like an interesting product, and doesn't seem to have any issues with false positives.
This is a screenshot of TR runnning a scan:
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Abdallah
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- May 3, 2015
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I think TR is a good on-demand scanner, I have a license for it from 13 years !
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I'm just trying it for the first time and it seems pretty good actually. I noticed some Russian AV testers on Youtube using this for a second opinion scan to see if the system is clean so i'm taking a look at it now. I ran a quick scan which took 2 mins and found nothing then I ran folder scan on a usb and it found a few stuff. It found "Malware.gen.hash" on a few junk files which I looked up on Virustotal to have 1/56 detections by Webroot (Heuristic) and some other smaller vendors. So it seems to use hash to identify bad files which is interesting to me. Anyone want to test the detection rate and post a video?
Does it provides real-time protection online/offline? How's its performance vs SuperAntiSpyware Pro?
Thanks
Thanks
It does not have real-time protection. In my opinion it's much better than SAS. But, while it can detect some threats, it is more designed for detecting and fixing suspicious changes to your system, than having excellent detection rates.
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