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
Published: 2010-09-02 (each working day)
System requirements
- Supported operating systems: Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7.
- Operating systems not supported: Windows 95
- Note! This tool will not work in Windows Safe Mode. Please run Windows in Normal Mode.
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.
