Avira PC Cleaner

Malware can sometimes slip past your existing antivirus program and infect your machine. Since no security solution is 100% effective, this is something that can happen. If you think that something like this happened, if you think your PC has been compromised, then you are very well advised to give Avira PC Cleaner a try. This is a free malware scanner that will find and fix infections, infections that your existing antivirus may have missed.

Avira PC Cleaner was initially released in Germany alone, at the request of the German Federal Bureau for Information Security (BSI) who needed a tool to clean up a critical botnet. In February 2014, Avira decided to release its free product to the global market, to all English speaking markets around the world.

Avira PC Cleaner works fine alongside antivirus or antimalware programs. To get the application up and running, you must download and run an executable, wait for a downloader to download and place Avira PC Cleaner in a temporary directory, and then agree to the license. The whole process is detailed in the Quick Look video that accompanies this review.

Information on Avira PC Cleaner is clearly presented on the application’s interface. There’s a piece of text that tells you Avira PC Cleaner is free software, that Avira PC Cleaner scans for malware infections, that Avira PC Cleaner can clean and repair your system if it finds viruses and other threats, and that Avira PC Cleaner is not a replacement for a complete antivirus solution.

Avira PC Cleaner can run a regular scan and a full scan. As expected, the full scan will take a bit longer to complete. Ideally, you will want Avira PC Cleaner to not find any threats on your PC. But if the application finds any infections, it will clean and repair the infections it finds.

Avira Security Expert Sorin Mustaca recommends using Avira PC Cleaner as a second line of defense. No matter what security solution is protecting your PC, you should regularly scan your PC with Avira PC Cleaner.

Think your antivirus missed something and now your PC is infected? Go get Avira PC Cleaner and put your theory to the test. This free malware scanner will find, clean and repair infections.