COMODO Cloud Scanner Portable

This is the portable edition of COMODO Cloud Scanner, an application that uses COMODO's Cloud technology to detect malware and suspicious files, privacy issues, registry errors, and junk files.

Contrary to what the name may suggest, it does not provide repair options, so its use is restricted to diagnostic purposes.

Since installation is not an issue, you can drop the program files anywhere on the hard disk and run the executable, as long as the device is not write-protected (some additional files are created).

An alternative is to save COMODO Cloud Scanner to a pen drive or similar device to run it on any machine without prior installers. What's important is that the Windows registry does not get new entries.

The interface is as simple as it can get. Clicking a button triggers an automatic scan procedure on all the aforementioned areas of the system, and results show total issues found in each section. You can also evaluate the list in detail.

As we said earlier, COMODO Cloud Scanner does not fix issues. However, we have noticed some suspicious activity conducted by the tool throughout our evaluation. For example, it detected 96 registry errors that were not picked up by CCleaner.

While the first scan did not show any malware or suspicious files in the system, a secondary one suddently revealed 49 such threats, while a third scan displayed 47 items in the same category. Note that no actions were taken between these runs, except for a program re-initialization (since COMODO Cloud Scanner does not permit multiple scans in one session).

Nevertheless, we put the program to the test against real threats. Out of 10003 virus samples, COMODO Cloud Scanner detected nothing. From these facts we draw the conclusion that users might probably be interested in finding another malware diagnosing tool.