July 26th, 2011· Changed some GUI elements.
· Added and changed some sounds.
· Estimated time is now the time remaining instead of the total time.
· Fixed rare crash bug when doing scheduled scan or update.
July 26th, 2011· Fixed bug accessing whitelist on new installations.
July 26th, 2011· Fixed a problem with the log manager not showing the logs.
· Fixed startup code to make The Cleaner attempt repairs and fail gracefully.
July 26th, 2011· Faster startup
· Improved language selection
· Adjusted some GUI elements for languages
· Improved log file manager
· Fixed bug causing crash when Windows Task Scheduler is disabled
July 26th, 2011· Updated GUI
· Added a small progres bar to beginning of scan so it doesn't appear to have hung while
· enumerating objects
· Fixed many small bugs
March 7th, 2011· Removed some anti-cracking code that was causing problems
March 7th, 2011· Fixed an update bug that sometimes caused a crash
· Auto update via the scheduler or /update paramater will no longer launch The Cleaner after updating.
February 28th, 2011· Fixed a license renewal bug.
February 19th, 2011· Fixed a bug that caused logging and reporting to not work properly.
February 12th, 2011· Fixed crash bug on exit (again)
February 7th, 2011· Fixed bug in Alternate Data Streams scanning
January 23rd, 2011· Fixed a couple of rare crash bugs
December 21st, 2010· Minor bugfix to registration system
December 16th, 2010· Updated handling of beta keys.
· Updated languages.
· All languages with missing strings have been filled out with the English strings.
· Update checks are enabled except for program updates. Minor fixes and improvements.
December 16th, 2010· Fixed a bug where The Cleaner would crash on close after scanning
· Fixed a bug where The Cleaner would crash after scanning a file that was dropped on the window.
· Fixed the news display panel which was registering itself as a drop target
November 22nd, 2010· Fixed a couple of bugs related to registration codes.
November 9th, 2010· Fixed a bug where a sound was missing.
· Fixed the installer to now give an error message when uninstalling.
March 30th, 2010· Implemented DeepScan technology and database
· Updated The Cleaner 2011, TCActive! and Cleaner CL to use DeepScan
· Added optional splash screen to show program startup status
· Reports are now saved between sessions
· Minor GUI fixes and cleanup
· Updated languages
March 17th, 2010· Fixed bug where the program would stop working if the task scheduler service was disabled
· Updated languages
March 16th, 2010· Fixed a missing sound
· Fixed uninstaller error while removing the helper service
· Updated languages
March 15th, 2010· Added ability to send Quarantine to MooSoft
· Added task scheduler (registered only)
· Added log file manager
· Added Quick Scan button
· Improved ADS (NTFS Alternate Data Stream) scanning
· Fixed a bug where links from the Home tab would not open in the default browser
March 6th, 2010· Better rootkit detection and removal
· We have expanded The Cleaner's abilities to handle more rootkits such as TDSS, Alureon, Agent, Zbot/Zeus and many others.
· Improved heuristics
· The heuristics look for more suspicious activity and can catch many unknown trojans.
· More languages
· The number of languages supported has expanded.
· A fresh new GUI
· We have improved the GUI without taking away from the great v6 interface.
· Improved scanning speed
· In many cases the scanning speed has improved with our updated Smart Scan.
· Improved registry malware detection and removal abilities
· The Cleaner now looks through more registry areas to find the bad guys.
· Improved command line scanner (The Cleaner CL)
· The command line scanner (Cleaner CL) can now scan and clean and uses the same great engine as The Cleaner 2011.
· Improved TCActive! real-time scanning module
· TCActive! is improved to handle blocking rootkit installers.
February 19th, 2010You will see:
· Improved rootkit detection and removal.
· Faster scanning.
· Smarter scanning.
· The same familiar interface.
· Many under-the-hood improvements that you might not see too!
February 17th, 2010· Improved rootkit detection and removal.
January 5th, 2010· Minor bug fixes.
· TCActive!: Fixed bug where the unregistered version would sometimes crash
· after displaying the dialog saying that it can't run.
January 5th, 2010· Fixed a bug with non-English dates.
January 5th, 2010· Fixed bug where The Cleaner would start in unregistered mode when used with right-click scan in explorer.
· Fixed bug where TCActive would not decode the registration key properly.
January 5th, 2010· Implemented a registration code system.
January 5th, 2010· Now prompts for a database update when the database is out of date.
November 9th, 2009· Fixed bug when canceling a database update.
· Added languages: Slovak, Romanian, Russian and Ukranian
November 3rd, 2009· updated database handling
October 28th, 2009· added languages
May 12th, 2009Added command line switches:
· /update : updates the DB and exits
· /smart : performs a Smart Scan and exits if no malware is found
· Adjustments to ZIP file processing
· Changed progress bars to be more compatible with WindowsXP
· Added save log file
· Added extract zip files to memory
· Added multi-language support
· Fixed open urls in default browser
· Added Dutch, Swedish, French, Spanish and German languages
· Fixed open urls in default browser
· Fixed bug where sometimes the program would not restart after updating
· Reduced the size of the navigation icons
May 4th, 2009· Fixed open urls in default browser
· Fixed bug where sometimes the program would not restart after updating
· Reduced the size of the navigation icons
· Added Spanish and German languages
March 5th, 2008· Added PendingFileOperations viewer to retail version
· Minor bug fixes
January 8th, 2008· Fixed a rare hanging problem during scan
· Free version will no longer be able to disable News display
June 13th, 2006· Updated the cleaning and scanning engine to support
· emerging threats.