installed easily on sony vaio win 10. excellent program. can we download the new versions which are being prompted and will the updates expire the license key?

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Oy, another GOTD product that tries to remove other GOTD products -- GrindinSoft has objections to Auslogics and Tenorshare, at least ( plus most browser extensions ).

THey also will mark ANYTHING as a PUP potentially unwanted program -- this ignorant over-reporting is a trick to claim "we find more than the other guys".

Intelligent reporting would know by now that a VB Visual BASIC script in the [ Startup ] folder to create a restore point at every boot is NOT a PUP.

Windows tweakers, utilities to check set the time to atomic clocks, utilities to modify the system tray display of the date and time, and NOT PUPs.

Some of these great little utility programs are 10 years old by now, some with NO home page anymore even if they did want to "phone home" -- hasn't GrindinSoft seen them yet?

That's why I consider this program an ignorant scanner

I run the scan, but mark everything [ Ignore Once ], then select [ Fix ], and then I can read the report to select what I agree with and what I disagree with, and then manually uninstall or leave things as I decide.

GrindinSoft is a consultant, a second opinion, not a boss, around my computer.

By the way, the free version will do just the same: create a list for YOU to decide what to do, manually.
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I downloaded it and installed it. Now every time I open it, it asks me for a activation code. Why?

There is a reply to comment missing here. The user questioned the validity of the high up votes and some of the positive early comments. Where did that comment reply disappear to? I watched specifically to see how many up votes it would receive, as I also up-voted it. Now it's just vanished.

11 января 2018 года я скачала программу GridinSoft Anti-Malware 3.1.28.
А 12 января тоесть сегодня я переустановила windowa 8.1 на windows 10.
И уже тот ключ которым я активировала программу вчера сегодня уже не вводится.Подскажите мне пожалуйста что мне надо зделать? С пасибо.

With reference to comments on problems installing, on W7 with Avast the message came up saying it had been installed when not, but had this before and only necessary to pause Avast and the installation went straight through. No issue with Webroot though, so depends on what AV using.

Very impressed so far, particularly with the fact that it will install on XP 64 machine, where it spotted an issue with Windows Explorer that I was aware of. Also tried on W7, both installations very easy, found a number of issues, simple clear interface makes it easy to check for false positives, nothing is deleted unless you actively change the individual item from quarantine, and quarantine only happens when you press the button, so no issue with automatic deletions at all.
Will definitely become a regular subscriber providing it continues to work with XP, which MBAM does not.

Can't change the interface background. Font size so small and some in light blue. Difficult to see and read.

There were an enormous number of FALSE POSITIVES from the heuristics and PUP/riskware checks it does. It even identified a program I personally wrote, in Autohotkey, that does nothing other than create window management hotkeys for use with multiple monitors. EVERY SINGLE "infection" identified was FALSE. Once I turned off PUP checks it stopped identifying anything. It also tries to force its way in to your startup without asking your permission, as well as send 'anonymous' data to their servers in Russia without your permission--you have to disable these without ever wanting them in the first place. I also don't like how it IMMEDIATELY SCANS upon install, with its own ALL FALSE POSITIVES results, eating all CPU utilization. Malwarebytes absolutely kills this P.O.S. and it doesn't just give a one year trial as its giveaway. Poorly designed software that has no evidence of higher detection rates of real risks. It's a great example of why people ignore antivirus scan results--they weren't real findings in the first place.

This is a really decent piece of software. Thank you. The install couldn't have been any easier...
except, I guess, for the myriad of people who can't read.
Thanks again.

Many years ago, I bought an AV called 'Outpost' ...lifetime licence. 2 years ago, Kaspersky AV took over 'Outpost' and offered 2 years free licence that just expired. I was lucky to have also bought a lifetime licence from Malwarebytes about 8 years ago, now on version 3.x selling at 39.95. Unfortunately, it's for just 1 PC. MAB is now so good, I don't use an anti-virus anymore but I do use a FREE firewall product - Private Firewall - that was a commercial product fairly recently, now free.. No problems at all so far, works very well.

2 Questions:-
1) Is GrindinSoft planing to offer a lifetime licence anytime soon?
2) Is there a need to have an anti-virus program working with it as with MAB?

Installed and activated, no problem if you read the instructions.

Pro -

ummmmmmmm well I suppose it mostly does what it says on the box so thats a pro
its free for a year !!

Con's -

VERY SLOW
BEWARE identifies legitimate apps as malware, TAKE NOTE before you quarantine or delete although you can ignore so don't just be a sheep and press buttons before reading the results, so not sure what is going on here ?
Massive memory hog
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Still a good effort by the developers and thanks for the freebie, I will keep and use it for the free period, then I will decide then if its a permanent addition to my arsenal.

Running about one and half hour, I let it pause a while. It scanned 69640 files and detected 16253 items. still have 56% to go. I do not believe there are so many items related virus or malware, adware

Installation and automatic registration went smooth and quick. The first run of the program revealed a couple of potential treats which I moved to quarantine.
The Quick scan has run for about 30 minutes which is an acceptable time for my hundreds of applications, approx. 100k+ files and 30k+ registry items.
Thank you GridinSoft!

Downloaded and set up without a hitch on Windows 10 pro 64 bit. I opened it as admin and ran it. It found 11 items, and I sent them to quarantine. Once in quarantine, you have the option to keep it or restore. I think (I was in a hurry) that running as admin also gave me a choice to delete/ quarantine each item separately by clicking on each one. I will try this the next time I run it. Thank you very much GOTD & GridinSoft :)

A few related questions for GridinSoft Support -- is GridinSoft Anti-Malware 3.1.28 compatible with the Windows Meltdown/Spectre patch; is it detected by Windows Update as antivirus software, & if so, does it add the registry key so Windows updates won't be blocked?

[Microsoft is blocking all updates, not just the Meltdown/Spectre patch, when it detects av software but doesn't see that registry key.]

support[.]microsoft[.]com/en-us/help/4072699/january-3-2018-windows-security-updates-and-antivirus-software

A quick suggestion if I might, providing a separate removal utility for your products [e.g. like McAfee, Norton, Bitdefender etc.] *might* get more people to try them.

Question for GrindinSoft support, everything went smooth while installing and I'm running it as we speak (it is also a memory hog and the "quick scan" is very slow) BUT how can one whitelist files and folders we don't want scanned?
Thanks in advance.

Went straight to "successfully activated". There was no installation. I'm using Win10 x64 Home.

The activation key received, entered, started the activation, but the antivirus was blocked. Disabled the antivirus, but again to get the key can't, because the address has already been used. Could you re-send the activation code to e-mail ?

Installed but no form to fill in to register and activate. Only option is to purchase.

Well, removing a malware, adware and so on is not a problem, there are many such free software like "ZHPCleaner" and many like it, the main problem is that this software will not prevent any future attacks from the same and even more of such malware hacks.
You are forced to download a list of known malware and then referenced it against what has already been installed.
It is a perpetual update and perpetual removal, unless this developer can stop such future malware installations, I'll give it 2 stars out of 10.

Opened and extracted files to a new folder on Win 7 Home Pro. I knew I was in trouble when the tab popped up and wouldn't let me select an option. If you can't select an option, you can't install it. Ha well.....

I have been using this program about a year. There are no complaints about this program. And if there were any minor problems, then I always got help from their technical support. I would have used the opportunity, but I already have the license key purchased) I recommend using it.

Provide alert before showing as deleted, any item. The updates, not upgrade should be permitted in this kind of malware deduction programs for even GOTD users

I filled in the registration form with my email but it says that the email has been used, and no registration code offered. What can I do?

E-mail is already used. And...? As E-mail is already known by them, I don't have righ to use it?

Спасибо за акцию! Пользуюсь этой программой так как она чистит то, что не чистят многие известные антивирусы, а именно разного рода мусор (именуют его как PUP), который появляется после "семейного" использования))). А с другими вирусами или же троянами, лично на мой взгляд, программа справляется тоже не хуже, чем другие.
P.S. Радует что у них появился сетевой фильтр:)

A great program is worth installing

Well, i will keep this program and watch with interest. Just before i ran a scan i used M'warebytes which found 28 problems. Then ran this keeper and it found another 25 different problems. Thanks GrindinSoft + GATD.....

(windows 7) Too many false positive. Uninstalled.

I bought this program June 2016 I had to remove it because it deleted so many legitimate programs without asking. I made the mistake of letting it clean my browser and it wouldn't work afterwards. I ended up doing a total system restore. I actually reinstalled it two weeks ago because I purchased a lifetime license and everything is running smoothly now. So the program has been updated tremendously!

wont install on win 10 pro, says files are corrupt, get new files from publisher..

Thank you guys both! installed and scanned quite fast (thought it'd be longer)... didn't puzzle over what to do with all issues found on my pc just pressed fix and all clear i hope)) don't care about interface or this kind of stuff just hope no threats will sneak into my pc
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I was waiting for this special offer for this program, thank you!

I'he tried this software many years ago, they were good, but now Gridinsoft Antimalware much better! Less false detects, more features (Net Filter for example)... But, guys! Interface is a bit old-school, you have to improve it, and usability too! If you are thinkink on it - you are on the right way, I like it! One of the programs which doesn't promise too much, but doing well ALL anounced job!

Thank you gaotd! Great program, it removed all the garbage that was installed without my consent. 5 out of 5!

I downloaded and installed on Win 7 64 bit, I ran a scan and it removed my music jukebox that I have used since 2003 and it removed games, I uninstalled and the reinstalled my lost items!