Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware).
Note that it should not be used as a substitute for running normal proactive antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected.
By downloading and running the program below it will clean an infected system completely:
- kill running processes that are infected
- remove infections from disk (including ActiveX components and browser helper objects)
- reveal and remove rootkits
- restore correct registry values
- remove references created by malware in hosts file
- remove windows firewall rules for malicious programs
System requirements
- Supported operating systems: Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista
- Operating systems not supported: Windows 95
In some cases Norman Malware Cleaner may require that you restart the computer to completely remove an infection:
When this dialog occurs we recommend that you restart the computer and run Norman Malware Cleaner again to ensure that all infections are removed.