Norton Power Eraser
Power Eraser, part of Norton Recovery Tools main screen | |
| Developer(s) | Symantec Corporation |
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| Stable release |
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Overview
Norton Power Eraser is a small portable executable, using Norton Insight in-the-cloud application ratings to scan the system. It checks in which list the application is. If it's in the list of trusted applications, it leaves it on the system. If it's in the list of bad applications, it marks it for deletion. If it's unknown and not in any list, it reports it as suspicious, but does not mark it for removal. Instead it recommends a "remote scan", which will upload the file to Symantec's servers to check it with virus definitions.
Effectivness
Power Eraser is very aggressive to unknown threats, since they won't be whitelisted and will be marked for removal or sent for analysis. The tool also features rootkit scanning, which requires system restart. Threat removal is also performed after restart, on the next boot, to avoid the self protection of viruses and trojans.