Free novice users software for windows

Hide Start Button 1 is designed as a useful system tool which is located on the left of taskbar. The software is designed to restrict novice users to fiddle with installed programs, which can be accessed through Start Button. Software is useful for cyber cafe administrators, school computer teachers and home users to restrict usage of installed programs.

RunScanner 1.7.0.0 provides you a professional software for scanning your system for all configured running programs and autostart locations. You can use runscanner to detect autostart programs, spyware, adware, homepage hijackers, unverified drivers and other problems. You can import and export your results and let other people help you to solve your problems.

Major Features:

1. Very comprehensive autostart list
   • Freeware.
   • Scanning of 100+ hijack locations, hosts file editor, process killer, online malware/whitelist analysis.
   • One executable, no installation required.
   • Backup / restore of deleted items.
   • Malware will find it harder than ever to hide.
2. For beginner and expert users
   • Beginner mode: This is for novice users that want to do a scan and upload their results to a malware specialist forum.
   • Expert mode: This is for advanced users, all startup tweaks, scanning, reporting, filtering and delete features are available.
3. Powerful file inspection
   • RunScanner makes it easier to determine which entries are likely to be malicious.
   • • Authenticode signature analysis.
     • Check all the certificates of your started files and verify if you trust the publisher.
     • Virustotal integration.
     • Send suspect files to Virustotal and have them checked by multiple anti-virus engines.
     • FileAdvisor integration.
     • Compare the MD5 hash of your files with the online Fileadvisor database.
     • Google search integration.
     • Search information for suspicious files on Google.
     • Runscanner online database integration. (+ online malware analysis)
     • Compare the MD5 hash of your files with the online Runscanner database.
     • Currently 160.000 (startup file) hashes available.
     • Powerful filtering.
4. Log analysis made easy
   • Plain text file logging with only the items that need your attention.
   • Saving and importing of text files to .run files (all information available)
   • A user with problems can save the .run file, an expert can mark the items that need fixing and send the .run file back to the user.
5. Malware removal abilities and misc
   • Powerful process killer.
   • Kill multiple processes at once.
   • Kill and rename.
   • Kill and delete.
   • Delete at next reboot.
   • Analysis of loaded modules.
   • Regedit jump.
   • Explorer jump.

Enhancements:

• Full unicode support!
• New layout to fit more items on the screen
• Removed classic mode and merged it with the expert mode.
• New and faster scan engine
• Runscanner now scans all loaded modules by default
• Runscanner text logfiles are redesigned to better fit in forums
• Filepaths are no longer converted into lowercase
• Run files now include all loaded modules
• Old run files are no longer compatible with the new version.
• Bug fixed: some incorrect "file not found" fixed for filenames
• Bug fixed: no description shows for some items
• Bug fixed: drwtsn32 -p %ld -e %ld -g could not be parsed
• Fixed error with some unknown datatypes (systemcheck2 error)
• Fixed error some items could not be deleted when a certain filter was set
• Added new publishers to the whitelist.
• Online whitelisting improved
• History database no longer uses MSaccess (no more mdac errors)