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RunScanner Specifications
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Malware spyware and junk analyzer.
Runscanner is a free, portable system utility that scans your PC for all running processes, programs, services, drivers, autostart locations, and hijack points. It can detect system changes made by viruses, malware, or operator error. Runscanner's powerful tools should be used with caution, but they can help you solve problems that ordinary means can't.
Runscanner offers two levels, Beginner and Expert. The Beginner mode has Scan and Update buttons and a link to Specialist help forums, plus three entry fields for saving scans as a log file or a binary .run file, which can be submitted to one of the online forums for expert analysis. Runscanner is clearly aimed at a more advanced "Beginner" than we typically encounter, since requiring users to join forums and submit scans of their system will simply be beyond the conception of many inexperienced users, and too much trouble for the "set-and-forget" crowd. But those users have other resources. The "advanced beginner" and others with good but not expert skills can use Runscanner's Beginner mode to get help when they're in over their heads.