Power Eraser For Registry

Norton Power Eraser repaired my registry after saying it was in bad shape. What sort of registry repairs does Power Eraser make? What might it do that that other tools like CCleaner dont?

CCleaner, at least the free version, only deletes registry keys left by uninstalled software. On the other hand, Norton claims Power Eraser is very aggressive.

 

OK! No one knew much about Power Eraser, so I examined further myself. One should seriously consider
putting Norton's free Power Eraser into their toolbox. It tests for root-kits, system corruption, and
unwanted applications.

Norton is right about Power Eraser being so aggressive that it might regard normal programs as threats. However, that's
neither here nor there because you can uncheck whatever it is that you don't want Power Eraser to fix. Not a problem for a
private and certainly not for a Major Geek. Power Eraser regards my Powershell scripts and Powershell's registry key for
execution policy as threats. No problem. I simply uncheck.

Power Eraser is only concerned about threats . It's not concerned at all about registry cleanup. So Power Eraser and tools like
CCleaner have nothing in common.

 

I just ran the latest Norton Power Eraser.
The 'Unwanted Application Scan' takes about 30 seconds which I find hard to believe.

Here's a screenshot of the results.

 

Malwarebytes detects and quarantines unwanted applications but I just did a full scan and
it took only 58 seconds. Based on that, Power Eraser's time just for unwanted applications
doesn't seem off. I of course have no idea how either can scan so fast.

 

I can't see how a full scan can be done in 58 seconds no matter how fast the CPU is. (I've been a paid MBAM user since October 2008 and own 5 lifetime licenses which have been used on Windows 2K, XP and 7 and never saw a scan in under a minute).

Win 7 32 bit Home Premium desktop 242,721 items scanned. The scan took 13 min. and 55 sec. (There was under a minute of that for checking for updates).

Win 7 64 bit Home Premium laptop 285,887 items scanned. The scan took 10 minutes and 10 seconds. - That is due to a better processor.

 

I tested NPE and think it's exaggerated rubbish. It found not a single thing on this system, either in the standard scan or the advanced scan. That's probably because I use a good system of security - CIS Premium - CCleaner Slim and Mbam for back up scans.
It also doesn't install which can create headaches for average users.

 

Thanks all. No Joke! It happens over and over and over. Malewarebytes (MB) will take 62 seconds or less to do a full scan.
It seems to know what it has done before. After a 60 second scan, another immediately after might take just
30 seconds. I had to look it up -- MBAM is just MB. I am using Full not hyper scans. 322,552 items scanned. Maybe fast speed is because I have real time protection turned on.

 

Got it! Malwarebytes is goofy. The "Threat Scan" is supposed to be comprehensive, but it always goes super fast.
I am now running a custom scan and it behaves completely differently -- the number of items scanned per minute
is a few orders of magnitude lower. Explain that! The custom scan will take a very long time.

 

10 to 1 bet that plodr has the free edition of Malewarebytes. Only the premium edition has real time scanning.
A "comprehensive" Threat Scan obviously knows what real time scanning has accomplished. I bet Threat Scan
is mostly verifying checksums created during real time scanning, and so is blazingly fast, e.g., 15 times faster than
normal custom or free edition scan. I know my bets could be wrong.

P.S. More research - more consecutive replies - sorry.

 

Sorry, you are wrong. I bought my first license for MBAM in 2008. I had to use it to clean up someone's computer and once I saw how well it worked, I came home and bought a copy and installed it on my husband's computer.

I own 5 lifetime licenses for malwarebytes.

 

Which version do you use / prefer now?

 

mjnc: I have Malewarebytes Premium 3.0.6 (3.o is latest).
plodr: Do you have that version, and if so, you are saying your Threat Scans are slow? I
don't understand how we could have the same
product (and version) with widely different behavior. Ain't lying when I say my Threat Scans are always super fast.

P.S. Look at the Avatar to the left to get a sense of how confused I usually am.

 

mjnc, I'm still using version 2 which is supported with database updates until some time in June.

I follow reports of issues people are having with v 3 so I'm waiting. In fact, I read posts yesterday from two people with problems. The two posters are well seasoned Windows users so if they are having issues, I suspect I might too.

It is also interesting to note that MBAM is not offering any upgrade when manually checking for updates. That says to me that MBAM realizes v 3 might not be quite ready for prime time. So I'll wait.

 

Thanks for the update, plodr.
I haven't kept up with MBAM news lately. I had wondered why I never saw an Update notice for the program even though the option to check for program updates when checking for database updates is enabled.

Also, I did not know that there will be a cutoff date for database updates for version 2.
We still a few months. Thanks.

 

I suppose if MBAM can't get v 3 ironed out, they might consider extending the database update deadline.