Anti Malware

Scan in compressed archives

Spyware tries to hide in archive files or compressed files  (ZIP, RAR, CAB, …) very often. Enable this option to avoid this risk.

Scan NTFS Alternate Data Stream

NTFS based data systems operate with different simultaneous data streams. Access authorizations and the origin data of the file are transmitted together. To monitor these combined streams, this option should be activated.

Scan for crypters

Some malware out there is encrypted or tries to hide its code somehow. If you enable this option Ashampoo Anti-Malware also scans for encrypted or otherwise hidden programs.

Use heuristic analysis to identify unknown threats

In addition to known threats the program’s advanced heuristic analysis can also identify unknown malware by its behavior and structure and blocks it before it does any damage.

Exclude false alarms upon infections of the registry base

The registry is a database of all configuration settings of your system. To detect infections in this place, Ashampoo Anti-Malware uses an efficient method to scan it. Due to its central function in Windows, some settings and keys are misinterpreted by other spyware tools. To avoid these errors, this option sets up a special mode to protect and scan your registry without erroneous results.

Report infections whose behaviour resembles infected source code

Some files are alike infections i.e. to test antivirus programs but don’t pose a threat at all. To avoid these false alarms, just enable this option