Comodo Cleaning Essentials

Comodo Cleaning Essentials, or CCE for short, is a free malware scanner and virus removal tool. It comes with a powerful scanner that can detect and remove malware, rootkits, hidden files and malicious registry keys. It also comes with a feature to identify and stop untrusted processes.

The system requirements for running CCE are: Intel Pentium II 233MHZ processr or better, 128MB of RAM or more, 210MB of free disk space, Windows operating system (32 or 64-bit edition).

CCE does not have to be installed. To get started with this security solution, you must download an archive, extract its contents, and then run the CCE executable. You could also run the KillSwitch executable or the Autoruns executable. You see, these three executables correspond to the three main tools CCE has to offer.

Run the CCE executable and you will be presented with the Comodo Cleaning Essentials interface. From it you can easily access a malware scanner, scanner that can unearth and remove viruses, rootkits, hidden files, and malicious Registry keys. You can run three types of on-demand scans: smart scan, full scan, custom scan. Please note that to complete a smart scan you must restart your PC.

Run the KillSwitch executable and you will launch an advanced system monitoring tool that allows you to identify, monitor and stop any unsafe processes that are running on your system.

Run the Autoruns executable and you will launch Autorun Analyzer, an advanced utility to view and handle services and programs that were loaded when your system booted up.

Comodo Cleaning Essentials is free software. Security company Comodo offers this tool for the great price of free.

Comodo Cleaning Essentials is free, it is fast, it is easy to use. It is a great tool you can use to unearth and remove malware from your infected machine.