What on-demand scanner do you recommend?
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- Apr 21, 2016
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HitmanPro is a solid choice with its strong malware detection and removal. However, you may also want to consider Malwarebytes as an alternative for its user-friendly interface and comprehensive protection.
- Feb 7, 2023
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Well it’s ok but not wow. Norton Power Eraser and KVRT are better choices.
rashmi
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- Jan 15, 2024
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You're committing a tech crime! Please use KVRT.
Can you explain why? All I was told is that it only scans exe's and cannot scan scripts for instance. Any other issues you got with it?You're committing a tech crime! Please use KVRT.
Can NPE and KVRT scan all kinds of files unlike HitmanPro?
- Feb 7, 2023
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Kaspersky scans memory content as well, HMP doesn’t, it just gets the paths of the loaded images and scans on disk. This is not beneficial in the event of fileless malware running.
And yeah, Norton Power Eraser and KVRT scan for all sorts of threats. NPE is quicker and easier but Kaspersky scans deeper. Though if you already have a Kaspersky product installed, you would not benefit from KVRT as it is the same engines.
Yes I use KTS. So what on-demand scanner would you recommend? I use VirusTotal for exe's or files that I'm not sure of.
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You already have powerful protection, you can benefit from NPE or Eset Online Scanner eventually.
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There is no better one, they both have their pros and cons. Eset is more about accuracy, NPE is more aggressive. Depends on your needs.
What's the difference between accuracy and being aggressive then?
- Feb 7, 2023
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Eset is more likely to miss something whilst NPE is more prone to false positives.
So no golden medium then. Would you say HMP is largely useless then?
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Hitman Pro nowadays queries the Sophos Live Protection network for reputation. Everything with malicious reputation or unknown is flagged as malicious/suspicious respectively. Sophos is a business-first vendor and there are loads of unknown files, as well as their network only collects reputation for executables.
All in all, HMP is not useless but it’s wildly inaccurate and also, paid. You can do better for free.
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- Apr 7, 2016
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KVRT is probably the best on demand scanners out there.
- Feb 25, 2017
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In addition to ESET Online Scanner you could try X-Sec. You may see some false positives but it's quite effective for such an unknown product.
X-Sec Antivirus
X-Sec Malware Scanner is a free antivirus software which can detect and remove malware effectively.
- Apr 16, 2017
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you suggesting give it a try...? this is the first I've heard of X-Sec. do you know if Chinese or Korean or other (just wondering) the website seems to have minimal info...In addition to ESET Online Scanner you could try X-Sec. You may see some false positives but it's quite effective for such an unknown product.
X-Sec Antivirus
X-Sec Malware Scanner is a free antivirus software which can detect and remove malware effectively.www.xsecantivirus.com
- Apr 16, 2017
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Did the devs improved scan times, cause last I remembered it was pretty slow?In addition to ESET Online Scanner you could try X-Sec. You may see some false positives but it's quite effective for such an unknown product.
X-Sec Antivirus
X-Sec Malware Scanner is a free antivirus software which can detect and remove malware effectively.
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The dev already said that the first scan will take much longer than the future ones. I can confirm that.
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