HitmanPro is a Second Opinion Malware Scanner that help you find and remove new unknown threats, to locate, identify and remove malware. HitmanPro is designed to work alongside existing security programs without any conflicts. It scans the computer quickly (less than 5 minutes) and does not slow down the computer (except for the few minutes it is scanning). HitmanPro does not need to be installed. It can be run straight from a USB flash drive, a CD/DVD, local or network attached hard drive. HitmanPro uses innovative cloud computing techniques to detect and remove potential malware threats with minimal impact on system performance. HitmanPro offers you a Free Scan for a second opinion. Unknown and suspicious files are automatically identified by online identification servers. This means no software on your system. If nothing is found (and we sincerely hope so), then you will never need a license. When a virus is found, then you will receive a free 30-day license to remove the threat.SurfRight has done an extensive research of malware files to determine the common characteristics (behaviour) of malware. The HitmanPro client uses this research in its Behavioural Scan, when it scans the computer for virus activities or suspicous files that have the characteristics of malware.
For the files that are classified as suspicious, the Hitman Pro client sends a request to the Scan Cloud for confirmation if these files are indeed malicious. The Scan Cloud is a cluster of multiple computers, residing on the Internet. The Scan Cloud will respond to this request with the answer: * Safe * Malicious * Unknown
When the file is unknown, the Hitman Pro client uploads the file to the Scan Cloud where the file is scanned using the anti virus programs of 5 different vendors. Each of these anti virus programs analyzes the file and responds with “safe” or “malicious”.
When the file is classified as malicious by the Scan Cloud, the Hitman Pro client is placing the infection into quarantine. Various techniques ensure that all infections are completely removed without false positives.
To remove malicious software the developers have also built a special removal engine that is capable of removing the toughest threats. A native NT application is capable of removing resilient threats before Windows starts. And of course, including corresponding references like registry keys and shortcuts. All without the need of updates and signatures.
Changes in Build 137 (2011-12-23):
* Hitman Pro is now called HitmanPro. On Twitter use #HitmanPro.
* NEW: Added Scanning for Malware Remnants. This new feature scans the File System and Registry for common malware related paths (files, folders, keys). The Remnant Scan combines a multi-threaded local scan with cloud based confirmation. In 3.6.0 we are detecting only a few hundred remnants; more will be added to the cloud in the coming weeks. We are still fine tuning the tooling on the backend.
* NEW: Added new Scheduler to allow scanning Daily, At Startup, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun at specific times. The scheduler is a process called hmpsched.exe.
* NEW: Shell integration by using a Shell Extension which adds an icon to the context menu and also allows multiple selected files to be scanned.
* NEW: Added ‘Goto location’ to context menu to highlight the file in Windows Explorer.
* NEW: Added ‘Show information’ to context menu to expose more internal information to the end user. Tip: the information can be copy-pasted.
* NEW: Added third opinion scan using VirusTotal. To use this feature you enter your personal VirusTotal Public API Key on the Advanced tab under Settings.
* NEW: Added detection for files signed with weak Authenticode signatures (RSA 512-bit keys).
* NEW: Added chevrons to highlight items in the result list that are running [PID] or start by [Run], [Service] or [Driver].
* NEW: Added detection and repair for the HOSTS file that was altered by malware.
* NEW: Added /clean command line switch to automatically quarantine and remove malware.
* NEW: Added the option to disable the automatic upload of suspicious files to the Scan Cloud.
* IMPROVED: Cloud Assisted Miniport Hook Bypass.
* IMPROVED: Detection and removal of Sinowal, Mebroot rootkit.
* IMPROVED: Removal of TDL4 (and variants) on systems where Boot Configuration Data (BCD) was persistently malformed by TDL4. Removing TDL4 from those systems could cause a non-bootable system (BSOD). HitmanPro now repairs BCD before removing TDL4 (or variants).
* IMPROVED: NTFS Parser to work better with heavily fragmented files.
* IMPROVED: Direct Disk Access now always scans using the lowest possible level.
* IMPROVED: Firefox and Chrome cookie scan.
* CHANGED: For regular users Early Warning Scoring (EWS) is no longer available from the Next button. Expert users can re-enable the EWS scan mode on the Advanced tab under Settings.
* INFO: 3.6.0 is currently only available in English.
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