Hazard Shield 2.1.0.1 is a free antimalware program that will help to keep your system clean. The program is able to detect, remove, and prevent the installation of spyware, trojans, backdoors, adware, rootkits, and other threats. You will be able to schedule scans and automatic updates. The Main Menu has 7 buttons. Each one will let you perform different actions. The "Scanner" button will let you scan your computer for threats. You will be able to choose if you want to do a smart, full or custom scan, including memory, registry and host files. After doing that, you can trigger the selected scan. The program will check your drives for malware, using its multi-threaded scanning engine. Should the program find any malware, it will show you a list with the found items. You will then be able to tell the program to remove the selected items, or ignore them. You can save the results to a file for later reference. The "Updates" button will allow you to check for any available program or database update. You can then download and install them. You can also set the program to check for updates automatically. The "Realtime" button will launch a program that will remain active in the background, supervising every process in your machine, preventing your system from being infected. The "Settings" button will allow you to configure the program. Among other things, you will be able to choose how to check for updates, schedule scannings and add items to the Ignore list. When you do changes in your registry, the program will offer you to save backups of them, in order to be able to roll back undesirable changes. The "Backups" button will let you access and manage those saved backups. The "File Killer" button will allow you to delete files that couldn´t be deleted in an ordinary way. The "Tools" button will grant you access to three utilities built-in in the program: Uninstall Manager, Process Manager and System Tools.
v2.2.0.392 [Jan 28, 2010]
Added detection for hidden files (beta)
Added self-protection on 64-bit systems
Added detection for hijacked .exe extension in the registry
Added ability to view and delete registry rules (decisions)
Added process manager with hidden process detection
Added tooltips to real-time protection notifications
Real-time protection now works on 64-bit systems
Updated heuristics for PCAgent spyware
Updated Krypton Toolkit to version 4.3
Hazard Shield's files are now signed
Registry monitor now monitors Shell and Userinit registry values
Drastically improved scanner speed and detection
Improved multithreading in scanning engine
Improved kernel-mode file enumeration and reading
Improved process suspending
Improved program and database updater
Improved database loading speed
Improved installation and uninstallation of real-time protection
Improved threat information dialog
Improved driver memory usage
Improved tray icon startup speed
Improved scan log saving
Improved multiple user support for real-time protection
Improved ADS scanning and removal
Improved quarantine
Setup and updater are now compressed with .NETZ
Renamed backups to quarantine
File backups are now encrypted
False positive / error reporter now use proxy settings
Fixed several bugs with the installer
Fixed security vulnerability in uninstaller
Fixed module enumeration on 32-bit processes on 64-bit systems
Fixed several problems removing registry keys and values
Fixed full scan scanning all drives instead of the selected ones
Fixed multiple freezing issues with real-time protection
Fixed 'remember my decision' checkbox on registry alerts
Fixed registry monitor running when real-time protection was disabled
Fixed massive memory leak in registry monitor
Fixed massive memory leak in driver file enumeration
Fixed bug that caused high memory usage on 32-bit systems
Fixed rare bug that caused real-time protection to crash
Fixed settings for real-time protection
Fixed issue detecting registry values as files
Fixed problem removing HKCR registry values
Fixed problem handling certain file and folder paths
Fixed problem detecting locked files as the previous detected threat
Fixed command line scanning
Fixed update delay on certain computers
Fixed minor GUI glitch with proxy settings
