RogueKiller

Malware always finds a way to get into your PC, whether you know it or not. As programs and websites get increasingly complex, so do the chances of malware getting through a backdoor. It's best you come prepared to face any such eventuality, and using competent antivirus software is the way to go about it.

Using two different antivirus software is often recommended against, but it's not a bad idea to have a heavy-duty, all-purpose solution be accompanied by a malware-focused scanner to run from time to time. If this approach interests you, RogueKiller is a scanner to consider — and not just for the cute icon.

It's first worth mentioning that, due to the Trial version limitations, the tool can only work as an on-demand scanner. The Paid version turns the program into something more by enabling various on-the-fly protection duties: malware and documents protection, most notably. Nevertheless, when conducting a scan in the Trial version, the program will remove any malware it does find.

As for the scanner function itself, you only have two options available: a full scan analyzes your entire machine to look for malware, whilst a quick scan will look for threats where they are most commonly found. It's up to you, however, to decide whether the added speed of a quick scan outweighs the more thorough, slower counterpart.

Upon scanning, a list of the found elements will be presented to you: in our case, we found we had a few suspicious registry subkey entries, and the tool marked them accordingly. It showed us their paths, and it also allowed us to tag them as exclusions.

Accessing the Report menu will bring up additional details about what was found: everything is grouped into processes, modules, services, and so on, to make it easy for users to distinguish the locus of the suspicion. Afterwards, you can have everything you're suspicious about removed.

RogueKiller might come with several limitations in its Free version, but the scanner feature is nevertheless functional, which is all you need in such a scenario.