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Watchdog Anti-Malware 2
THIS COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY TOOL uses multiple antivirus engines to detect threats that regular software might miss. It digs through your hard drive and, when it finds something suspicious, passes a fingerprint (not the whole file) to its cloud scanner for further analysis.
Once it’s finished, it sends back its verdict – but you don’t need to be a technical expert to decipher its findings. Simply cast an eye over the list of threats it’s found, choose what to delete, quarantine or exclude, and then click to clean your system.
Watchdog Anti-Malware also offers real-time protection, so it can warn you about potentially dangerous files before they’re executed, and runs a speedy “Smart Scan” when your system starts. If you don’t need that level of protection, it can be tweaked to your requirements or disabled entirely in the Settings dialog.