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Malware can consist of computer viruses, adware, tracking software, and many other forms of mayhem, but what it has in common is that none of it is welcome in your computer. You should already have antivirus protection and similar safeguards, but we strongly recommend regularly scanning your PC for infections with an antimalware tool. Fortunately, you have several choices when it comes to free tools that can find and remove a wide range of threats and nuisances. IObit's Malware Fighter Free comes as a standalone download or bundled with other IObit tools. With automatic updates, a variety of system guards, and a Cloud Security option, it offers a lot in addition to its scanning capabilities.
Malware Fighter's user interface is typical of system utilities, despite its unique colors scheme and design: large fonts, rounded edges, and ads (someone has to pay; just be glad it's not you!) as well as tabs accessing the program's Overview, Scan, Protect, and Cloud features. Clicking Quarantine called up a dialog listing suspicious files (if any). The Protect page offers 8 separate guard options: Startup, Browser, Network, File, Cookie, Process, USB Disk, and Malicious Action. The Cloud Security page lets users upload their data to IObit's Cloud security site. After updating the database, we scanned our system. By default, the first scan is the program's Smart Scan, but subsequently we could choose it or Full or Custom scans. The scan took a little more than three minutes and found no malware. A full scan took much longer, though. We also ran Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, which many consider the standard in free anti-malware tools. But it found nothing that IObit's tool missed.
So which should you try? Both! Here's the thing about free malware scanners: Absolutely nothing is stopping you from downloading and running as many as you like (just not simultaneously). You have nothing to lose but your malware. Try IObit; try Malwarebytes; try the others, too, and then make a regular habit of using the ones you like best. You'll never be sorry you scanned too much.
IObit Malware Fighter - Scan you PC and remove all kinds of malware - Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
From IObit:
IObit Malware Fighter is an advanced malware & spyware removal utility that detects, removes the deepest infections, and protects your PC from various potential spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, bots, worms, and hijackers. With the unique "Dual-Core" engine and the heuristic malware detection, IObit Malware Fighter detects the most complex and deepest spyware and malware in a very fast and efficient way. IObit Malware Fighter has a enhanced real-time protection and frequent automatic updating for prevention of zero-day security threats. IObit Malware Fighter can work with your Antivirus for a superior PC security.
What's new in this version: Version 1.5:
- Added support for Windows 8 Release Preview
- Improved UI
- Updated language file
- Fixed general bugs
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All versions:
3.9 starsout of 1,896 votes
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Current version:
2.7 starsout of 20 votes
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"Great download"
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
Does everything I need it to do.
Cons
Cant think of any
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""Ugly product""
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
nothing good
Cons
it always freezes my computer
Summary
a piece of sh_t
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"Improvement"
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
Installs and scans fine.
Cons
The detection rate is very low and limited updates.
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"I Didn't like it. It had no real-time protection."
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
It downloaded easily enough.
Cons
It didn't have 'real-time' protection.
Summary
I Didn't like it. I wanted an Anti- malware system with 'real-time' protection.
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"This Product is not good. Needs a tone of work."
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
Cool User interface, thats bascally it
Cons
Terrible Detection rate and many false positives.
Summary
Overall, Iobit malware fighter is a bad product. Company has not a good reputation. I would not use this software.
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"Pretty Good Product"
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
This product helped me to eliminate a real bad malware virus. So far so good.
Cons
Don't have any at this time.
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"I have just loaded 1.5"
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
On loading, on both my computers using XP, it ran fine and found threats which I repaired instantly. I do think that those comments of " it's rubbish" may have had other problems which threw up their troubles.
Cons
None to date.
Summary
Very happy to date with previous versions. I'm not expecting any major problems with 1.5
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"Great program, easy to use!"
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
This tool is stable, not causing any kind of errors, no blue screen of sh*t - whatsoever! Is much better than the previous version, known as IObit 360 degrees. I totally recommend it, if you have WindowsXP. If are problems with other OS versions, i don't know, but, on my XP, it's fast and it does an excellent job! Vanea Al. Bell
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Summary
Have faith. ;)
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"partially loaded pages."
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
Scan found many threats. I run it weekly instead of full time.
It did find two threats my SPY-Bot missed.Cons
I found it best to start it manually by turning it off in msconfig. It would not let web pages load fully. it blocked images and some articles in yahoo's homepage and from my choices in the search results page.
Summary
Like spy bot, I run it weekly instead of full time. I take my chances and let Microsoft Essentials do the real time work. So Far so good.
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"Useless product"
Version: IObit Malware Fighter 1.5
Pros
Noting at all!!!
Cons
gives me blue sreen of death. Spend hour to fix it back!
Summary
junk crap. Dont use it
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