HitmanPro
HitmanPro is an on-demand malware scanner and removal tool.
What is HitmanPro?
HitmanPro (formerly Hitman Pro) is an on-demand malware scanner and removal tool. It will usually do a full-system scan significantly faster than other (traditional) solutions due to its cloud-based scan technique. It does not offer a real-time component (aka shield, guard) and will upload suspicious files to the cloud for scanning.
Hitman Pro markets itself as a 'Second Opinion' malware scanner and offers free unlimited scanning and a free 30-day evaluation license (easily obtained with one click from within the program) to allow for removal of found infections.
Its approach of finding malware differs from most 'traditional' anti-virus and anti-malware scanners in that it uploads suspicious files to a computer network (the 'cloud') on the internet where files are being scanned by different anti-virus engines - as of Version 3.7.9 these are Bitdefender and Kaspersky Lab. The program itself contains none of these scan engines and only classifies files by comparing the file signature to a list of files that are either known to be safe or malicious.In addition the program includes a behavioral scanner and a removal component.
The company behind HitmanPro, Surfright, was acquired by Sophos in December 2015.
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- English
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- tdl3
- Anti-Malware
- anti-spyware
- anti-rootkit
- tdl4
- tdl
- Anti-Virus
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nonyagoatman added HitmanPro as alternative(s) to SpyShelter- reviewed HitmanProGu
Danilo_Venom added HitmanPro as alternative(s) to Avast One
The malware hunter that gets them all
HitmanPro is awful. All it does is compare some of your local binaries to a VirusTotal threat feed, and it takes whatever it finds there at face value. There is no exclusion list.
This means that if you use software that anti-malware vendors (who really should remove the "anti-" from the name) routinely designate as malicious for no legitimate reason whatsoever (e.g. Process Hacker), you will continually be warned about it, and if you're not careful, you will accidentally delete it from your system.
There is a "Report that this file is safe" function, but even on the rare occasions it doesn't throw an error, it accomplishes absolutely nothing.
If you use one or more "potentially unwanted applications" (PUAs), they will also be detected EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. They will also be flagged as "Malware" by HitmanPro, even though they are not.
You're much better off simply using Emsisoft Emergency Kit.
The least they could do is add the much-needed "S" to this product's name, and I don't mean at the end.