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Giveaway of the day — UnHackMe 8.12

UnHackMe eliminates all types of malicious software!
$19.95 EXPIRED
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UnHackMe 8.12 was available as a giveaway on July 13, 2016!

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UnHackMe was initially created as anti-rootkit software, but currently it has more features: scanning for "unwanted programs", checking for junk files, created by PUPs, scanning of Windows startup, services, drivers, testing Windows shortcuts, scanning for rootkits, testing the host files and DNS settings, testing all used files on Virustotal. The program uses its own database to detect what is better to remove from your PC. The important advantage of UnHackMe is that you can find an unknown malware by inspecting UnHackMe information.

UnHackMe eliminates various types of malicious software:

  • Redirecting;
  • Popup ads;
  • Potentially unwanted programs (PUP);
  • Unwanted processes;
  • Slow browsing;
  • Rootkits;
  • Trojans;
  • Spyware;
  • Keyloggers.

System Requirements:

Windows XP/ Vista/ 7/ 8/ 8.1/10 (x32/x64); 256 MB RAM; 40 MB of free disk space; Compatible with all known antiviral software

Publisher:

Greatis Software

Homepage:

http://greatis.com/unhackme/index.html

File Size:

25.2 MB

Price:

$19.95

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#21

I used an older UnHackMe version from GOTD without problem or compromise. It ran quietly in the background of my Win10 x64 Home OS, and it did, occasionally provide some benefit. With the new RegRun embedded tools an other enhancements, I find UnHackMe is a demanding handful that is gobbling computer cycles constantly. I've run though all of the recommended seven (7) scans, but UnHackMe still reports a problem with a Red Exclamation warning that won't go away. The processor is running constantly on a high fan state now, too. I seem to recall the older GOTD version had RegRun as a separate component that I uninstalled, but now there is only a single option to Uninstall all of UnHackMe. Unless I get a resolution soon, I'm afraid this will have to be dropped from my system. I'm already running AVG and Windows Firewall, and can ill afford a high-maintenance "companion" that is in a constant state of alarm!

Reply   |   Comment by AnAceBuyer  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
#20

I don't need a program to clean my PC. I need a program that prevents the bad stuff coming onto my PC in the 1st place. Or better yet an extensive HOSTS file, which does exactly that.

Reply   |   Comment by Jack`  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
#19

I had read good reports on this software in some internet fora.

I did not encounter any installation problems in my "Win10x64+
BitDefender Internet" System. After reading the comments here I went to Safe Mode with Network and got it installed. In Safe Mode (with Network) itself I launched the program and fed the key from 'Read Me'. At the same time, a pop up window also appeared giving the key. Well, that's good. After registration, it takes you to the author's website with a caption reading.."Registered. What next?' or something like that. On running the program after a normal start, it gave a report on a few malware (To detect different types of malware, you can choose 'Next' twice or thrice). There was an option to delete them in Safe Mode which I chose. On its own it restarted the machine in Safe Mode, deleted the malware. I rebooted and all was fine. Fortunately the malware detected were not of serious nature. BitDefender has been doing a good job.

Reply   |   Comment by rajarammenon  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#18

Installed, ran scan, didn't have much time to read all the listings. Closed the scan, got a flashing"!" in my taskbar because I had disabled most of the automatic stuff, opened it to disable everything and exited the program. This is far more comprehensive than I need, I will keep it for suspicious activity is all. I would not mind a simple rootkit monitor, but I already have enough security programs (Comodo firewall, Avast Antivirus, and Malwarebytes) and don't want to add another to run 24/7. I actually had to disable Windows Defender because it froze Windows Vista from loading.

Reply   |   Comment by Therese  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#17

I installed this to Windows 10 Home 64b and found it istalled with no problems and when I ran it ifound all kinds of things that other programs like this hadn't. It seems to go deeper and of course could be more dangerous if you wipe out the wrong things so be careful. I looked up every (over 100) file that I didn't recognize because I didn't know what they were and was able to choose semi-wisely and cleaned up problems I have had for a while now but couldn't figure out how to eradicate. So all in all it works great and I plan to work with it for awhile to decide if it is worthwile for me to buy. Thanks Giveawayoftheday.

Reply   |   Comment by Keith  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#16

Some of mine Abiword files got listed as suspicious, what a waste of time, uninstalled.

Reply   |   Comment by kerin  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)
#15

I installed and ran the program, but it goes into a never ending loop. Uninstalled it.

Reply   |   Comment by roby  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+4)
#14

Is this program just another malware seeking program or is there more to this program that makes it more useful?

Reply   |   Comment by Brian Clark  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)
#13

Is the "check for updates" checking for updates to the database, or to the program? Will it void the registration?

Reply   |   Comment by RichU  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)

RichU,
"Check for updates" is used for all updates (program& database).
You can install a new version or decline it.
UnHackMe checks for a database update during virus scanning.

Reply   |   Comment by Dmitry Sokolov  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
#12

Every time GOTD features a program that cleans up my computer I look at all of the comments before installing and if there is the least bit of doubt that I'll be able to use it without pulling out the rest of my hair, then I just avoid it altogether. My question is, how do I tell if I have a false positive or a problem? I'm not a computer techie, just your average user.

Reply   |   Comment by Ken K  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+12)
#11

What is the advantage of the new GAOD version 8.12 over the old GAOD version 7.76? Does the old version have to be uninstalled to install the new version? Can it be installed over the old version? What is the code (file) is the WIN 10 upgrade window listed as so it can be removed.
This is a Nice Program with a steep learning curve and you have to decide what the false positive codes are when they are detected.and list the as such. Very time consuming but it will remove hard to locate bad codes if you can identify them as such.
It is a keeper.

Reply   |   Comment by Joe  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)

Joe, delete C:\Windows\GWX and the Windows 10 upgrade prompt will go away. If the prompt comes back, delete that folder again. There is at least one security update that brings the upgrade prompt back.

Reply   |   Comment by Morris Cox  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-2)

Joe, I didn't uninstall the previous version, I just installed the new version into the same directory as the old one. Program started up fine and showed the new version (also registration was no problem).

Reply   |   Comment by Your Teacher  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-1)

Joe,
I suggest you to always use a newest version.
We constantly adopt UnHackMe to fix the new threats.
Your old version cannot be so effective.
You can install new version over previous without uninstalling.

Reply   |   Comment by Dmitry Sokolov  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)
#10

I must say that I´m very lucky to have missunderstood how this program functions. I´ve had it in my computer since it was given away the last time, v. 7.76.
It´s been running in the background and I´ve thought that I would be notfied if there was a problem. Now I opened it and it says that I haven´t made a scan in 392 days .

Reply   |   Comment by nissepelle  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-4)

nissepelle, and?

Reply   |   Comment by Herriot2  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-1)
#9

I've run this program for over a year. I just ignore the "My" blank prompt, and it works well.

Reply   |   Comment by Rick_S  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-6)
#8

Cannot find programme to install gcd

Reply   |   Comment by Pam  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-11)

Pam,
The setup.exe and setup.gcd, when put into the same folder, run together. In other words, the exe needs the gcd file to install GOTD offers.

Reply   |   Comment by Drumpf  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+4)
#7

This is what I think about the database and the names, they change all the times and no hacker will use the same names twice, they morph and are being introduced in various ways, most of the times as memory only application that creates its own name and extension when saved i.e. when you shut down the computer and next day you can not even boot to use this software and even if you succeed to get into your computer, how would you know which program to disable if the new Virus is not on the list, do you delete one by one or do you delete all of the programs on the list and permanently kill your computer?

Reply   |   Comment by Martin  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-11)

Martin,

Anti-virus and anti-malware programs look deeper than just the file name they check each files signature against the database, simple having a malicious file change it's name or location prevent it from being detected in most cases, but there are always going to be some that slip through the net, nothing is 100% foolproof.

Reply   |   Comment by Lenny  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+15)

Lenny, You are misleading, this software only compares the names and CRC of the file, therefore, you can not rely on the database as reference for finding a virus. The list that is created as suspicious files is false.

Reply   |   Comment by kerin  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#6

Downloaded, installed and registered on Windows 8.1 (64bit) without any issues. Ran UnHackme and was presented with a nice clean well presented UGI, always a good start. After scanning my system it presents a list of potential files that it may or may not be malware and allows you to choose if they are to be removed or are fals positives. All the windows are nice and clear making it very to see at a glance what's going on. Another nice little feature, I don't think was mentioned in the blurb is that you down load a free program that disables GWX, great for those of us that don't want to downgrade to Windows 10 ... Tried it and it was terrible ... But that's another story.

Overall impression of UnhackMe is that the developer(Dmitry) has put a lot of thought into both the function and the layout of the program which is very light on resources. I also run Malwarebytes on my system and it sits nicely beside it without any conflicts. Well worth giving it a try if you can. Big thanks to GOTD and Dmitry for sharing this with us.

Now let's see how many times my comment gets marked down by the Bozo Squad ... LOL

Reply   |   Comment by Lenny  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+87)

+1 for Lenny, so I guess I'm not part of the Bozo Squad. LOL

Reply   |   Comment by Rex Hutto  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-16)

Rex Hutto,

Guess not!

Reply   |   Comment by Lenny  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-18)

Lenny, BOZO Squad not anywhere around your comment today.

Reply   |   Comment by Hughjocapivvy  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-14)

Lenny, the "bozo squad is anyone that thinks this is in-your-face-book. Comments here are for the product! It's not for social garbage thanks!

Reply   |   Comment by lenny  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-8)
#5

I Have a problem with installation. When i run Setup.exe, there is an Error with connection....

http://i.imgur.com/EZUOz8I.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/RqfCz3y.jpg?1

Reply   |   Comment by Kлип  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-9)

I keep having the same problem and I posted basically the same comment but I ever saw an annswer.

Reply   |   Comment by Gary  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)

Kлип,
You have to have an internet connection to install any offer from GOTD. If you have unplugged your modem, it won't work.

Reply   |   Comment by Drumpf  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

Drumpf, Yes, i have, but slow connection, maybe that`s the problem. On the other way, with another programs from this website there wasnt problem!?

Reply   |   Comment by Kлип  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
#4

Tried it don't like it uninstalled it. Program is a jumble of process and a lot of false positives.

Reply   |   Comment by MG  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

MG,

UnHackMe actually gives you the option to decide if anything found is a false positive or not, unlike some other similar software that throws it into quarantine or simply removes it.

Reply   |   Comment by Lenny  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+11)

Lenny, How would you know which programs and drivers are real and which ones are dangerous and fake just by looking at the names, my list was over 100 long.
Who has time to review and search for every one of them to find out if is a Trojan or Virus or just a normal file?

Reply   |   Comment by Martin  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+19)

Martin,

There's no easy answer to that to be honest ... As I said earlier I already run Malwarebytes and it usually flags anything suspicious and when it does I usually check it out at the time and decide whether it is a false positive and bear in mind if you are using cracks, these will be flagged as being malicious, even if they aren't harmful. If in doubt put let your anti-virus program put it into quarantine until you can check it out.

Reply   |   Comment by Lenny  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+10)

Lenny,

Correction: My brain went to mush ... I meant to say IF IN DOUBT LET YOUR ANTI-VIRUS/MALWARE PROGRAM PUT THEM INTO QUARANTINE ... Sorry 'bout that.

Reply   |   Comment by Lenny  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+6)
#3

Help needed with install.
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Error
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The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program.
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OK
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I keep getting this error even after re-download, extract to same folder and reinstall as Admin. What am I doing wrong?
After this error message I get "Successfully activated
Register your copy using following data:"

I had a earlier GOATD version which I uninstalled.

Reply   |   Comment by zippitymouse  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-3)

zippitymouse, you either are infected with a virus/trojan or your RAM memory is bad in your computer.

Reply   |   Comment by Jeremy  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-3)

Well I guess there's no help out there. Life's tough when you don't know the secret handshake.

Reply   |   Comment by Donho  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-4)

zippitymouse, try installing in safe mode with network

Reply   |   Comment by Cig  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

zippitymouse,
Setup files are corrupted because you downloaded this offer with your antivirus on. Delete your current install files, disable antivirus program, download offer again, follow instrutions in the readme text file and install and register.

Reply   |   Comment by Drumpf  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+5)

zippitymouse, I use Kaspersky and I would get this all time when trying to download and install anything from GAOTD. I found that I needed to disable protection and reboot with protection disabled. Then download and install. After successful installation I then reenable protection.

Reply   |   Comment by Karl  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+4)
#2

I have version 7.9 and I would like to try this, but Windows Defender refuses to allow it to install, is there some new thing in the giveawayoftheday installer?

Reply   |   Comment by Brett  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)

Brett,
Windows 10 stops it from installing but it also gives me the option to allow it,by clicking on "more info"

Reply   |   Comment by John Deed  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+5)

John Deed,

Windows 10 ... Arghhhh! Maybe you should upgrade your os to DOS 3.1 instead ... Sorry just dislike Windows 10.

Reply   |   Comment by Lenny  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-14)

Lenny, Windows 10 is rubbish. Windows 8.1 with alternative startbutton is much better.

Reply   |   Comment by Adriaan  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-18)

Brett,
Delete the files you downloaded from this offer.
Open Windows Defender and disable Real-Time Protection under the Options tab by unticking the check box. Save settings.
Download this offer again and unzip the zip file.
Install should be fine now.
After installation is done, go back to Windows Defender and re-enable Real-Time Protection. Done.

Reply   |   Comment by Drumpf  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Lenny,
160713
For awhile Microsoft (MS) was doing FORCED instalation of Windows 10 from Windows 8 and Windows 7 (through "automatic updates enabled" they are automatically downloading [~ 3GB installer] all of Windows 10 to your Windows 7 or 8 PC, whether you asked for it or not) with repeated changes to W10’s upgrade policy, mandatory telemetry collection, and decisions to kill off patch notes and make all updates mandatory (plus the issues with UWP and gaming) have collectively left a bad taste in many users’ mouths.

Lately W7 is to be blocked unless w7 sp1 is installed. M$ killed standalone software sales of the operating system in October 2013, and Windows 7 consumer PCs stopped being manufactured in October 2014,
W7sp1 exited “mainstream support” on January 13, 2015. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet
w7 suport ended April 9, 2013.

Microsoft can scan W10 devices for pirated software and block it; the end-user OS service agreement (12,000 words) signed by any W10 users allows Microsoft to access all passwords, password prompts and other information used for data protection; M$ also receives other types of data, from users’ contacts, their emails, web history and even physical location;
it warns that the received information will be stored and processed in the United States or any other country for an indefinite period of time and transferred to US state agencies; M$ also reserves the right to share this data with special services, use it in research, publish or use it in any other way it sees fit.

Reply   |   Comment by bubu  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)
#1

This software has put my computer into an endless loop at startup, it is trying to delete a file but avast will not allow it to do so... there is no key, stated or otherwise, to abort the process. Thank God I had another computer handy to post this warning. Would the author care to tell me how to exist this endless loop... none of the standard key combinations (ctrl C eg) will work.

Reply   |   Comment by kiwi1960  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+40)

kiwi1960, Ctrl+alt+Del, start task manager, click on the program and end task, or start/run type in msconfig-go to startup and uncheck the program so that it doesn't run on start-up.

Reply   |   Comment by HellsBells  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+8)

kiwi1960, after you get it fixed, note that you can set Avast to not start without your permission, this would allow you to run unhackme first, then start your antivirus. It should be OK as long as you have good firewall protection.

Reply   |   Comment by Therese  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

kiwi1960, Useless info from Hellsbells, Press F8 upon startup, select Last Known Good Configuration, or safe mode and take actions from there or Take the drive out of the non working computer, put it on as a secondary and delete the file needed! UBCD4Windows is a great option as well!

Reply   |   Comment by Keith  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+10)

kiwi1960, There's a couple of things, but it's been a while since I've had to do it. It depends on what you mean by "endless loop at startup".

If it's happening before you get to the windows desktop, you'll have to try to get to the startup menu.
When booting up from powered off state, you want to hit the function 8 key. (F8) There's actually a short window in which to do it, that I usually recognize by the bios beeps and then I start tapping that key until either I've obviously missed it, or I'm in a menu.
If you aren't sure what the bios beeps are, just start tapping the function 8 as soon as you turn it on at a rate of about once or twice a second. That trick usually works for most people.
It's been a long time, so maybe it was F7 instead of F8, but I'm pretty sure it's Function 8.
Anyway, there should be an option on that menu to startup without other software running, or safe mode.
(Again, it's been years since I've done this, and the menus do change depending on version of windows. I've never done it in windows 8 or 10, so no idea what those look like.)
Now if that'll get you into a working windows but without all your other stuff, you can then disable that program so it's not running on startup. Then you can reboot like normal and it should be ok.
Now, something I wanted to bring up. If that doesn't help, it could be possible that windows was damaged somehow, and it might not have anything to do with this program. In which case, you'll probably want to look at using your repair disks or something along those lines, but I never saw that happen too often when I was doing this stuff for a living.

I hope this helps, and I apologize for the lousy writing style, but it's ~4:30 am and I'm way past tired.

Reply   |   Comment by Meerling  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+24)

kiwi1960,
I hope you resolve the issues with your system. your experience does not fill me with confidence to try this on my system. Is this an isolated incidence or is it typical of this program? I would appreciate hearing from others before I try this.

Reply   |   Comment by gpc111  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

kiwi1960,
In future use Acronis or other bare metal restore software, make a full backup and burn a CD boot disk.

Reply   |   Comment by ric  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-6)

gpc111,

On the "dutch" giveway version is the strange (and dangerous) false positives for start-up programms result as follows:
When you delete those 3 y'our in deep trouble.

https://sur.ly/o/dropbox.com/s%2F6zxx45x002pak36%2FScanResult-2.png%3Fdl%3D0/AA005599

Reply   |   Comment by herkato  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+4)

herkato,

The first item in your scan report -- from Wondershare -- is understandably suspect. If you look around on the 'net for topics like WSHelper or WS Compact, you'll find that they (and several associated companies under various names, with various products) have in the past been purveyors of spam, and noxious "phone home" modules that need to be carefully removed, once the particular program has been installed.

Reply   |   Comment by Gene  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

Gene, the dropboxlink just shows that the startupitems are rated "good" (green shield), in the left it states 14 startupitems were found and all good.... So, nothing strange or dangerous...

Reply   |   Comment by Lucky Luke  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

I was able to exit the endless loop somehow.... CTRL ALT DEL doesn't work in DOS mode... nor does F8 because this was happening BEFORE windows loaded, it happened after the "computer needs to reboot".
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I un-installed unhackme as soon as I could. I think I will stick to HITMAN ...

Reply   |   Comment by Kiwi1960  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

Kiwi1960, F8 is before windows start, the issue is the UBK Virus! (User Behind Keyboard)

Reply   |   Comment by Keith  –  7 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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