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asper
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Emisoft Free Emergency Antivirus Toolkit

Hi,
It's possible add Emisoft Antivirus Free Emergency Toolkit (http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/eek/ ) ?
It's a good antimalware software (I think)
Thankyou

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Legacy driver may present a problem

Emsisoft Emergency Kit is a very good program to have around for emergencies - as the name suggests. But it installs a driver:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_CLEANHLP
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cleanhlp

That LEGACY driver cannot safely be removed from the registry. Also the Windows registry editor will refuse to remove legacy entries (unless you trick it into doing so nevertheless). So the "perfect uninstall" which a portable app is expected to perform when it closes down would be a problem I think. I'm no expert, but I've done some reading up on legacy driver entries in the registry - and it seems to me something best left untouched.

dirk

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what does it add

I'd also want to know what it added to what we already have

Wm

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Well...

it's kind of ClamWin and Spybot in one, with a very good detection rate.

It is in fact portable in its present form, as it can be downloaded from the web page - except for the legacy entries issue and a few further registry references to the cleanhlp driver. If you can live with that, there's no further reason to make it into a PortableApp.

dirk

asper
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Thank you very much for your

Thank you very much for your reply Smile , now I know it's not really Sad portable

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Latest version is fully portable now

Emsisoft Emergency Kit 10 and higher is fully portable now. It doesn't leave any drivers behind anymore.

Best regards

Christian Mairoll - CEO Emsisoft

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