Norascan

Infecting your system with malware is not difficult. Just visit a shady web site or click all the annoying adds and banners you can find. One of them will surely give you an unwanted present. Eliminating such threats from your computer is not easy, because certain antivirus programs may not detect anything suspicious. This is why you can never be too careful when it comes to protecting your system against malware. Besides popular antivirus software, you can find various applications, which may perform better in certain situations. There is not much to say about Norascan, except that it uses different methods of scanning and verifying suspicious files.

Norascan is free and you can install it, in a few moments, on any Windows platform, from Windows 2000 up to Windows 7. It does not use too many resources, but the best part is that you can use it alongside other antivirus software, without encountering any conflicts or other problems.

Instead of being overloaded with options, Norascan provides strictly what you need to check your system against malware. You can opt for a quick scan or a full drive scan, which is slower but more thorough. Additionally, you may tick a few options to verify suspicious files, right after the scanning is complete, check for all file extensions or perform a rootkit behavior analysis.

While scanning, the software will display suspicious files in a list, if it finds any, on the left side of its interface. The process is quite fast and you can stop at any time, if you need to. If you are not entirely sure that a file is actually infected or not, you may verify it on the cloud. Just select one or more files and click a button, beneath the list. It is also possible to quarantine files and access a detailed log.