

Norton Power Eraser looks a good candidate to your toolbox.

It’s also worth noting that because NPE uses aggressive scan method, there is a risk that it can detect some legitimate software for removal. Luckily, my computer is clean and risk free. The scanning process starts right after the computer restarts and logged in. It’s recommended leaving the option on so that those hard-to-detected rootkits can be scanned and found. The computer will be restarted once you start the scan. Take look the settings before running the scan, you would notice that the Rootkit Scan is turned on by default.

Or, boot to WinPE and run it from there, if safe mode doesn’t get you anywhere.īecause it’s portable, you can download it from NPE’s home page and directly run it. Simply boot to safe mode, if still possible, and run Norton Power Eraser (NPE) to clean it up. Particularly, it can be used when your Windows is infected and won’t load properly because of it. Claimed to eliminates deeply embedded crimeware, it uses aggressive methods to scan and detect those bad bugs that traditional virus scanning tool don’t always pick up. Norton Power Eraser is a portable free virus scan program from Symantec.
