Detect and eliminate trojans, spyware and adware
RemoveIT is a free trojan, adware and spyware scanner that searches and destroys dangerous viruses, trojans and spyware.
However, the effectiveness of RemoveIT is open to debate. The developers claim that it's so good, it "locates and removes many new dangerous files including spyware, malware, virus, worms, trojans and adware that other popular AV programs do not find." RemoveIT therefore is NOT a real-time scanner - it's based on cleaning-up after something has installed itself on your PC rather than real-time protection which I always think is a dangerous approach.
There's nothing flashy about RemoveIT - the interface is based on Windows Explorer shell which also includes a slightly more advanced and expanded version of Windows Task Manager (to stop and block illegal processes) and the same with a Service Manager which gives you an overview of the services and program currently running on your PC. With RemoveIT's tools, you have more control over what runs on your PC both during startup and day-to-day operation. The Services Manager in RemoveIT is recommended for beginners as you can see clearly the actual names of the programs running while the Process Manager only shows those files that are running as parts of programs and as a result, you may shut something down that you didn't mean to.
For a free and light malware scanner, RemoveIT is a solid program although it does not seem to detect anything that other scanners (such as Ad-Aware) can't so it's maybe not as effective as the developers claim.
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User reviews about RemoveIT Pro
by Anonymous
Besides good infection detection it also flags good items as being infected.
It seems doubtful as it flags good computer items as being infected. It will
do a good detection job on many items but I still would not purchase it or use the free version.
Pros:
nothing
Cons:
obvious - all infections detected must be genuine More
by Anonymous
never try it.
it destroy bookmarks and take over the home pages in browsers and it give fake alerts for all programs you use and it can find every thing as a virus More
by Anonymous
BAD, do not use.
It found 76 infected files almost all of them in my SYS32 I didn't delete anything and I'm running fine on my old XP. It said that the following were infected files and I should remove: (All SYS32. Files) ATF-Cleaner, Excel4, WinLogon, hijackthis, winword, excel, ccleaner, msn, windowsupdate, nwwia and many others. If I had taken their advice, I probably wouldn't be able to type this review. I used this tool years ago, when I first got into computers and I thought it was a great program. Now, I look back on it and I probably burned up a few computers by just using this one "useful" tool... Be aware...
Pros:
It's free and teaches you what not to do, like use this tool
Cons:
It needs to seriously be reworked so that good files are not classifed infected files like sys32.winlogon and other programs that are neccesary to run your computer. More
by Anonymous
Rogue program.
This program is a total scam. It found 58 infected files on my clean system. VirusTotal verified that the files are clean. Do not use!!!
Pros:
None
Cons:
Flags clean files as infected. You might delete crucial system files. And render your system unstable or unusable. More
by Anonymous
Great tool!.
This programs helped me alot, it is very fast, very lite, and very easy to use, my best friend against malware!!!
Pros: Very lite, fast scan...
Cons:
None More