Malaware is a new cloud based scanner from Emisoft the vendors of A-squared and Mamutu, both highly rated anti malware scanners.

Malawares’ download is extremely small for a scanner at 1mb but this is due to the fact it is a cloud based scanner and will look at any processes it is unsure of “in the cloud” – by going online and checking against a continually growing database of signatures.

This product is not a real time scanner like Panda Cloud AV (which ways in at 21mb at the mo) and is meant to be used every so often to complement your av or from a usb stick.

The basic idea behind MalAware was to create build the smallest possible (1 mb) and the fastest possible malware scanner (scan <1 min) that will only provide an indication of whether a PC is infected with malware or not.

Malawares’ scan was extremely quick at under a minute and correctly found nothing on my clean machine.

As you can see once a scan is finished you get the hard sell to buy a-squared anti-malware as the program itself will not remove anything.

I think this is a great little tool to have on a usb stick to discover if a pc is infested or not and has great backing from Emisoft. It’s worth a scan on your system as a nice second opinion.

However it won’t be the first tool I break out on a PC I suspect has Malware on. I’ll stick to superantispyware and Avira.

MalAware works on XP / Vista / 7  -all 32 and 64 editions.

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