Norton Power Eraser
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Norton Power Eraser (NPE) is a small
Symantec
's servers to check it with virus definitions.
Effectiveness
Power Eraser is very aggressive[2] against unknown threats that are not whitelisted and are instead marked for removal or sent for analysis. The tool also features rootkit scanning, which requires a system restart. Threat removal is also performed after restart, on the next boot, to avoid the self-protection of viruses and trojans.
References
- ^ What you should know before you run Power Eraser .
- ^ "Norton Power Eraser". Symantec. Archived from the original on April 13, 2011. Retrieved 2016-03-05.