Emco Malware Cleaner specializes in remotely scanning hosts on a network for
viruses, worms, and Trojans. Moreover, it can also clean remote hosts without
installing any agent on them. So a remote user would never know that his machine
is being scanned for security. It can even find which anti virus is loaded on
each host on the network. This can be a really useful feature. It scans and
discovers all machines on your network, after which you can define a range of IP
addresses to scan.
Scanning
The software provides two scanning modes: Simple and Expert. Simple mode lets
you scan a single IP, a specified IP range and perform a full domain scan. Enter
the required details as per your choice of scan and after the scan is done, a
box dialog with the detected malware is shown. Click on Execute to clean the
detected malware. Various other details like the custom signatures used,
anti-virus software, currently running process and startup programs of the
scanned computers are also displayed in separate tabs. In Expert mode, you have
a button to scan for available nodes on a network and add machines via IP range
(or manually).
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Press the 'Enumerate LAN' button to search for machines on the network. Once
the search is complete, the machines' names are displayed under their respective
workgroup. In case a machine is not detected, it can be added using the 'Add
machine' button by specifying either the IP address or name of the machine. To
add the machines for scanning from the ones detected, drag and drop them to the
window on the right side.
There are three tabs in the right window pane in Expert mode-Scan computers,
Management and Schedule. Scan computers would scan the selected machines and you
can specify if the scan should be done using all or specified signatures. Select
specified signatures to get a box that lists existing malware definition with a
name and category. Select the required definitions and click on Scan. The
results are displayed in a new tab window in the right pane itself. The
Management button has the options to delete selected machines from the list, add
more machines within an IP range alongwith saving, and loading the list of
selected machines for future scans. The Schedule button generates a command line
for the task scheduler, which needs to be copy/pasted into the task scheduler
settings.
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Options
For in-depth scanning, go to Application settings>Manage settings. A 'Change
settings' dialog box would come up. You can opt from options like what to scan
between adwares, Trojan; viruses etc, set scanning rules for file level/registry
level scanning alongwith maximum number of machines to scan simultaneously.
Other options include saving the result logs and sending them via mail. To send
messages over the server once the scan is done, go to Application
settings>Message and check on the box that says 'Send message after scanning
each computer', enter your message in the message box and click on OK. Every
time a computer is scanned, the user at the other end would see the message.