Swiftly finds and removes tracking cookies, riskware, and other potentially unwanted items to keep your computer safe from malware

If you want to tighten up computer security, it's not enough to have just a single antimalware application installed. On the other hand, it's not recommended to get another antivirus tool either, since the two real-time engines might collide and, eventually, lead to system errors.

• If you're familiar with Sophos Virus Removal Tool (freeware), you might be interested in Sophos Clean, which is basically a premium edition of Virus Removal Tool. In addition to a malware scanner.
• SophosZap is a last resort command line clean up tool focused on uninstalling Sophos Endpoint products to revert a machine to a clean state. Before you run this tool, we strongly recommend that you use the standard product uninstaller first.

The Sophos Virus Removal Tool is a stand-alone program that allows you to perform a quick scan of your computer for computer viruses. If any infections are found it will attempt to remove them for.

Get a second security opinion when it comes to malware

In this case, you can get a second opinion from another malware program, one which can only find and remove infected files instead of blocking incoming attacks too. If you're familiar with Sophos Virus Removal Tool (freeware), you might be interested in Sophos Clean, which is basically a premium edition of Virus Removal Tool. In addition to a malware scanner, it features a quarantine manager, scheduled scans, logs, and right-click menu integration for custom file and folder scans.

Installation isn't required, so you can double-click the downloaded .exe file to bring up the main app window. There are two scanning modes available: default and quick. It's not clear what the default scan implies but it seems to be more thorough than the quick one.

Scans your PC for riskware, browser tracking cookies, and PUPs

Since it's a portable product, Sophos Clean doesn't create additional files on the hard drive without your permission. However, if you wish to run it more than once, you can allow it to automatically scan the PC daily during startup and to create shortcuts in the desktop and start menu.

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When it comes to the types of malware, Sophos Clean is capable of detecting riskware, browser tracking cookies and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), among others. Once the scan is over, it lists all suspicious or infected files, giving you the possibility to remove them from the PC, send them to the quarantine for further analysis, ignore the ones you consider to be false positives, as well as view detailed information. Before removal, it auto-creates a system restore point.

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Quarantine manager, scheduled tasks, and custom scans via the context menu

As far as settings are concerned, you can prevent the app from auto-uploading suspicious files to the cloud as well as disable the restore point creation, PUP and tracking cookie scans. Furthermore, you can schedule scans, integrate the tool into the Windows Explorer context menu for custom file and folder scans, manage quarantine items, and inspect logs.

Scans were carried out quickly in our tests while the tool remained light on system resources consumption. Taking into account its clean interface and intuitive options, Sophos Clean might be just the second opinion you've been looking for when it comes to malware.

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Sophos Clean 3.7.13 Build 262

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SophosClean.exe

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You’ve been infected. Well, not you, but your computer has. It’s slow. It’s acting funny. You need a no-nonsense malware cleaner to get your computer back up to speed. We have just the thing.

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A standard antivirus program misses stuff. It’s focused on finding malware signatures that virus firms have identified as malicious. But what about new, zero-day threats that haven’t been researched? That’s why HitmanPro looks at behaviors when scanning for trojans and other malware. Bad behavior is caught, with or without a malware signature.

Two heads are better than one. So we have four. HitmanPro leverages malware databases from four security labs, including SophosLabs, to be incredibly thorough when scanning for and cleaning up spyware and malware. More research means more powerful cleaning.

Malware piggybacks on various programs to gain access to your computer. HitmanPro removes that malware – and it doesn’t stop there. Damaged Windows resources are brought back to their safe, original versions.

Resilient malware can also affect critical system files and boot records to manipulate the Windows operating system and installed antivirus software. This is even before the operating system boots. HitmanPro can remove these persistent threats from within the running operating system and its boot records.

Unlike free programs, HitmanPro doesn’t sell your information or install unwanted apps, tool bars, or advertising programs. We just provide secure, easy malware removal.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. HitmanPro can be used all by itself or alongside another security product.

If you would like to see how the product works in depth, check out our release pages. You'll find technical updates written by the HitmanPro development engineers.

Just head to our HitmanPro support pages to find the answers you seek.

Currently, HitmanPro is a Windows PC-only product. However, if you need to protect Mac computers, we would highly recommend Sophos Home, created by our parent company Sophos.

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