Malware Defender is a HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System) with low resource usage and latency. It is effective to protect your computer system from all forms of malware (viruses, worms, Trojans, adware, spyware, keyloggers, rootkits, etc.).

Malware Defender is also an advanced rootkit detector. Malware Defender provides many tools that allow you to detect and remove installed malware.

Whether you are an expert or not, Malware Defender is your choice to protect your system.

Here are some key features of "Malware Defender":

· Realtime protection system
· Monitors process, file and registry activity for suspicious behavior.
· Detects all forms of malware, whether known or unknown.
· Supports learning mode and silent mode.
· High performance and low resource usage.
· Process manager
· Detects hidden processes and threads.
· Detects unsigned processes and modules.
· Kills processes and threads using advanced method.
· Suspends/resumes processes and threads.
· Unloads modules of processes.
· Closes handles of processes.
· Kernel module manager
· Detects hidden kernel modules and kernel threads.
· Detects unsigned kernel modules.
· Kills, suspends and resumes kernel threads.
· Kills kernel DPC (Deferred Procedure Call) timers.
· Hooks detector
· Detects and removes system service table hooks (SSDT hooks).
· Detects and removes Win32k service table hooks (shadow SSDT hooks).
· Detects and removes interrupt descriptor table hooks (IDT hooks).
· Detects and removes SYSENTER handler hook.
· Detects and removes kernel object hooks.
· Detects and removes kernel notify routines.
· Detects and removes kernel mode code hooks.
· Detects and removes user mode code hooks.
· Detects and removes global message hooks.
· Detects attached devices.
· Detects hooked driver dispatch routines (IRP hooks).
· Autostart application manager
· Scans all known autostart locations.
· Detects hidden autostart entries.
· Detects newly added autostart entries.
· Undoes and redoes deletion of autostart entries.
· File explorer
· Detects hidden files and folders.
· Shows and deletes NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS).
· Deletes in-use files.
· Registry editor
· Full functional registry editor.
· Detects hidden registry entries.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial
· Nag Screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added protection against changing security permissions of files and registry keys.
· Improved the ability to detect actions of loading DLLs.
· Fixed bugs when parsing file paths.
· Fixed a bug when importing rules.
· Fixed a bug when removing stale rules.
· Minor improvements and fixes.