Home The Cleaner 3.0 Released ...
Now Includes Background Scanning!

Portland, Oregon... October 19, 1999 -- For Immediate Release

MooSoft Development is proud to announce version 3.0 of its award-winning software, The Cleaner. Completely rewritten and redesigned, version 3.0 now includes background scanning of all activity in memory; a faster, redesigned scan engine (about 100 files per second); a newer, tougher, Trojan fingerprinting process; scanning inside compressed archives; and a completely redesigned Interface (GUI). Objective tests have shown that The Cleaner 3.0 blows the competition away -- both in speed of scans and in number of Trojans found: http://www.moosoft.com/tc3vsav.html

Users can install the program, update it regularly, and leave their Trojan worries behind.

TCActive! PROVIDES BACKGROUND SCANNING:
With it's new TCActive! feature, The Cleaner 3.0 stays alert even when you can't. TCActive! sits quietly in the system tray and constantly monitors all activity in memory. If a Trojan is found, TCActive immediately shuts down the offending program and alerts the user of its presence. The end-user can then remove the Trojan with The Cleaner.

"We're very proud to offer TCActive! to our customers," said Daniel Otis-Vigil, Chief Software Engineer for MooSoft Development. "We've been working hard on this for the past six months ... we've integrated TCActive with The Cleaner's improved scan engine and it's redefined Trojan fingerprinting process. We studied the competition before we built version 3.0, and the result is absolutely the best Trojan scanner on the market."

THE CLEANER 3.0 BEATS THE COMPETITION:
Objective, controlled testing has resulted in surprising results: The Cleaner 3.0 is almost 4 TIMES as fast as Norton Antivirus and significantly faster than McAffee VirusScan. More importantly, none of the 5 major competitors came close to The Cleaner in detecting known Trojans. See the results at: http://www.moosoft.com/tc3vsav.html Note: Testing was performed with the latest versions and updates for all programs.

Why does the Cleaner 3.0 detect more Trojans?

First, The Cleaner's fingerprinting process is unmatched by any other program on the market. It is easy to make minor variations to a Trojan file to "fool" the competitors, but The Cleaner's copywritten fingerprinting process stops Trojans cold.

Second, MooSoft development is extremely well connected in the anti-Trojan community. When a new Trojan appears on Internet, it will get picked up and sent to MooSoft quickly through one of its many formal and informal reporting channels. As soon as Trojans are received, the response team quickly analyzes and integrates them into the Trojan Definitions file. On the face of the main window of The Cleaner 3.0, there is a button that checks the MooSoft Servers for available updates. Users simply press that button, and The Cleaner 3.0 automatically updates the Trojan definitions file and the program itself. Currently, The Cleaner 3.0 detects more than 700 known Trojans and variations, and more are added on constantly.

"If a new Trojan is out there, we'll find it fast ... we can usually get it analyzed, tested, and incorporated into our definition files within a few days," said Otis-Vigil.

MooSoft Development is a privately held company in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As new threats to Internet security continue to evolve, Trojan Horses and "Worms" are continuing to receive major press on the large news sites. For more information about The Cleaner 3.0 and links to download a free trial version, visit the MooSoft Web page at:

http://www.moosoft.com

For answers to further questions or a free registration code for review purposes, please contact:

Robert Dyke
Montana Software -- Marketing and Public Relations
cleanersales@moosoft.com
http://www.moosoft.com