Norman Malware Cleaner is a Norman program utility that may be used to detect and remove specific malicious software (malware). Note that it should not be used as a substitute for running normal proactive antivirus protection, but rather as a reactive tool to handle systems that are already infected. It will clean an infected system completely: kill running processes that are infected reveal and remove rootkits remove infections from disk (including ActiveX components and browser helper objects) restore correct registry values remove references created by malware in hosts file remove windows firewall rules for malicious programs