While traditional antivirus tools use virus signatures to detect and remove malware programs, RogueKiller uses behavioral patterns to detect the viruses that other similar tools tend to ignore or simply fail to identify. The program covers all kind of malware, from adware to rootkits and spyware, unmasking all those files that shouldn’t be there on your PC regardless of how harmful they may or may not be.
RogueKiller offers you three scan types – a Standard Scan that checks every single file and folder on your disks, a Quick Scan that searches only in the most commonly used locations, and a Custom Scan, where you can define which areas will be checked for malware. This third option, however, is only available in the paid versions of the program, Personal and Technician. In this sense, this free utility also lacks other interesting functions available in the other plans, such as real-time malware protection, a portable configuration file for portable scans, and document protection against ransomware. Anti-rootkit protection and removal of whatever threats the program may find are fully functional, though. As an extra, RogueKiller keeps a history of all the scan reports produced, as well as the events and the files put in quarantine.
And this is basically what you can expect from this free tool. Despite its simplicity and its limited features, this is a fully functional tool. While other similar tools offer a free version that merely identifies the threats (false positives included) and ask you to upgrade to remove them, you can rest assured that even RogueKiller’s costless plan will detect “and” remove malware programs that traditional antivirus tools tend to ignore or overlook.
v14.1 [Jan 21, 2020]
- Updated to core 4.1.0.
* Fixed a possible crash in Buffer module (implicitcasts).
* Fixed an issue where threat name wasn't properly parsed.
* Reduced API calls frequency.
* Update to rkflt 0.9.2.
* Update to rksvc 1.1.0.
* Fixed possible crash at exit.
* DockLock: Prevent RW from rebooting.
* DockLock: Prevent RW from using shadow copy removal.
* DockLock: Fixed an issue where renaming whas not fully detected.
* DockLock: Added RIPlace detection and blocking.
* Updates libraries (jansson / cryptopp).
* Driver loading sanity check.
- Added gamer mode (no notifications during full screen).
