Want to deploy a common anti-rootkit, anti-trojan, anti-spyware, anti-adware toolkit across your Windows network? That’s the claim to fame of the latest version of RegRun Platinum, featuring UnHackMe rootkit remover. It runs on most of the common Windows platforms still in service: Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, NT4, Me, 98 and 95.

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The manufacturer claims the product is special because:
RegRun is not an antivirus in a common sense. It does not scan your disk and detect/cure using signature database. There are a lot of antiviral programs that you can choose. RegRun checks all Windows startup holes and it can detect and remove any unknown virus. The modern viruses spreads to the millions computers in the world for a pair days. First, a virus kills an antivirus and disables a way to update the antiviral databases. RegRun prevents a virus auto start. Later you can clean your computer by antivirus to remove virus according files and registry records.

RegRun Platinum is more interface than program. The kit calls tools that consolidate startup-to-shutdown management, including ongoing monitoring of all facets of the startup process. It watches for spyware, trojans and other malware, by description, as well as actions. No program is allowed to run before RegRun’s RunGuard checks it out.

Even known Windows executables are analyzed, to make sure they haven’t been replaced by dangerous code. And it monitors all attempts to change the Windows registry.

Administrative conveniences include registry search and replace, along with a registry compression tool, WinSock 2 recovery tool, process lister, sysedit replacement, batch job manager, a job scheduler, and other tools, tips, tricks and shortcuts.

Taking RegRun’s maker, Greatis, at its word, we installed RegRun Platinum on Windows XP, 2000, NT4 and Me.

While the product installed easily enough across all systems, its interface left a lot to be desired. Many screens were presented in a way that left us wondering what the creators wanted us to do.
For example, the first time we ran RegRun virus scanner, it presented a flurry of… suspicious… files, one-by-one. Human decisions were made based on RegRun recommendations, causing programs and processes to be removed. At the end of the scan, the virus scanner automatically scanned again, re-presenting many files and processes that had supposedly been removed earlier.

On slower systems, we were often presented with a pile of half-windows with no indication as to which window had precedence.

If, as every programmer knows, the user interface comprises 80% of the program, Greatis has completed about half the job.

On the other hand, if you want one anti-virus supplement for all the Windows systems on your network, RegRun may be your answer. Just make sure you hide it well on end-users’ systems. They could do some real damage.

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