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
Switches to Norman Malware Cleaner
/iagree Agree to license agreement (popup window suppressed)
/scan Specify file/folder to scan
/norecurse Do not recurse into subfolders. Only valid when used with /scan
/exclude Specify file/folder to exclude
/run Start scanning automatically
/autoboot Reboot automatically after scan if needed
/quiet Don’t display GUI
/log Specify log file
/noclean Skip the cleaning process
/nops Skip process scanning
/nounpack Skip archive scanning
/nosysvol Do not scan for changes to system restore after deleting a file
/? List switches
System requirements
* Supported operating systems are: Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and 2003
* Operating systems not supported are: Windows 95 and Vista
