Emsisoft, the maker of Anti-Malware 5.0 has released a new free tool called Emergency Kit. It is well known that Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.0 can make your computer slow compared to other major antivirus brand but its detection rate has been topping the ranks. There is a freeware version of Emsisoft Anti-Malware which allows you to scan and remove malwares but without the real time protection which needs to be installed on your computer.
As for Emergency Kit, it is portable and you can run it directly from your USB flash drive or from your computer’s hard drive without installation. This gives you the convenience of using one of the best detection engine that is able to detect more than 4 million known dangers but without installing extra files and registry to your computer. Basically the features of the freeware version of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.0 and the Emergency Kit are the same except that the freeware requires installation and auto loads a2service.exe process in background that takes up 1.5MB of memory.
Installing Emsisoft Emergency Kit to a USB flash drive is easy. Just download and extract the zip file EmsisoftEmergencyKit.zip to the root of your USB flash drive. It has an autorun.inf file which launches the start.exe, a nice interface with options to run the Emergency Kit Scanner, Commandline Scanner, HiJackFree or BlitzBlank.
The Emergency Kit Scanner is the graphical disk scanner to check and clean infected computers. As for Commandline Scanner, it has the same functionality as Emergency Kit Scanner but with no graphical user interface. You have to specify the scan parameters or you can simply double click on the CommandlineScanner.bat batch file to run a smart scan and auto quarantine detected files. The HijackFree is an advanced system analysis tool for manual Malware removal. BlitzBlank is also another tool for experienced users. When you know which file/registry cannot be deleted or removed, you can use BlitzBlank to perform the actions before all other programs are loaded via its special low-level technology.
Emsisoft Emergency Kit takes up merely 100MB space and I can finally use Emsisoft dual engine to scan computers without actually installing it. There are times when a computer is infected by malware or spyware so badly, it is nearly impossible to install any software or antivirus. Remember, Emsisoft Emergency Kit does not provide real time protection. It is most useful when you need a second opinion when you already have an existing antivirus on your computer or for technicians to scan their customer’s computer.