{"id":653841,"date":"2013-04-23T01:20:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=144994"},"modified":"2013-04-23T01:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T05:20:27","slug":"hitman-pro-your-second-line-of-malware-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653841","title":{"rendered":"Hitman Pro: Your second line of malware defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"No matter how strong your PC\u2019s defences, there\u2019s still a chance that a virus will be able to bypass them, eventually. And so it pays to have a Plan B, a \u201csecond opinion\u201d malware remover which you can turn to in an emergency: something like\u00a0Hitman Pro<\/a>, in fact.<\/p>\n

The tool is a relatively small download at under 10MB, and doesn\u2019t require any installation. Just launch it, click Next > Next, and the program will quickly scan your system, looking for suspicious files. Anything it doesn\u2019t recognize is sent to the program\u2019s Scan Cloud, where it\u2019s checked by multiple engines (Bitdefender, Emsisoft, G Data, IKARUS) before a verdict is given.<\/p>\n

This first element of the program is entirely free, and useful enough in itself; anything which lets you check your files with all those engines, free of charge, from the same scan, is well worth adding to your security toolkit.<\/p>\n

The catch? To remove something you have to run the program as a trial version. That\u2019s not actually an issue with a one-off infection, as if you don\u2019t want to pay the $24.95 annual subscription then you can just let the trial expire. But it does mean that you can\u2019t use Hitman Pro for ongoing detection and removal.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t give up on the program just yet, though, because Hitman Pro does have another useful feature, KickStart. It\u2019s specifically designed to remove ransomware, which locks your PC, demanding money before you can access your PC. And it\u2019s just about the easiest way to eliminate this kind of threat that you\u2019ll find anywhere.<\/p>\n

The idea is that you\u2019ll use another PC to download Hitman Pro, and create a bootable USB flash drive. This option is a little more hidden than you might expect — it\u2019s launched from the tiny icon next to the \u201cSettings\u201d button — but once you\u2019ve found it, a simple wizard will help you create your recovery drive.<\/p>\n

Now boot your locked PC from the USB key, instead, and it\u2019ll start\u00a0Hitman Pro<\/a>\u00a0for you. The nice touch is that this isn\u2019t some DOS variant, or a Linux version. KickStart boots your own operating system, bypassing the ransomware, before allowing you to remove it as normal. And again, while businesses have to pay, home users can remove the ransomware for free if they sign up for the trial, which sounds like a reasonable deal to us.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Sergii Korolko<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n

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No matter how strong your PC\u2019s defences, there\u2019s still a chance that a virus will be able to bypass them, eventually. And so it pays to have a Plan B, a \u201csecond opinion\u201d malware remover which you can turn to in an emergency: something like\u00a0Hitman Pro, in fact. The tool is a relatively small download […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}