avast! GrimeFighter is one of the most popular new products among AVAST users.

However, many of you still don’t know the benefits of it or what avast! GrimeFighter does. Therefore we have prepared a series of articles with a "movie theme" to show you the functionality of our Grime-fighting minions! The first one, Learn everything you always wanted to know about avast! GrimeFighter, but were afraid to ask!, gave you an overview of product functionality. Now let's dig a bit deeper into the subject.

12 Angry minions.

The Grime Fighter crew work together towards one goal: Cleaning and optimizing your PCs performance. They have no mercy for temporary and unwanted files and apps, including ‘bloatware’ and ‘crapware’. This is a very complicated task, therefore our 12 Angry minions analyze each element in depth before deleting anything that is actually important to you. This influences the time of the cleaning process (it takes up to 4 hours depending on the initial state of your PC), but also ensures results: A more efficient and faster machine. Although our minions make it look easy and entertaining, cleaning Grime so thoroughly is a complex task!

For the same reason each minion has it's specialization and focus on different tasks:

OFFICER PETE is head of the GrimeFighter team.

KOBAYASHI sneaks up on malware to eliminate it from your PC.

NIKITA specializes in cleaning and maintaining your web browser.

DALE JUMPSHOT JR. focuses on removing crapware and bloatware to speed up Windows load time.

BEEF strengthens the security of your applications.

TORQUE tuns up and optimizes Windows services and settings.

SIR JEFFREY investigates and analyzes your PC hardware components.

MARIO analyzes your network connection for security and speed.

DR. LIZA analyzes and classifies all of the stuff on your hard drive.

ZILCH takes out the trash on your PC to free up your drive space.

MAXIMUS analyzes and researches the newest hacking trends the instant they emerge, and last but not least HOLMES focuses on your privacy settings.

The avast! Minions perform deep analysis, by booting your PC into Linux to identify Grime and clean every corner of your PC. Some forms of Grime are hard to remove when Windows is running, but can’t hide when we sedate your computer. Unwanted files and apps go by many names, including ‘bloatware’, ‘crapware’, and sometimes even half-jokingly using the name ‘virus.’ We define all of these as ‘Grime.’ The image below visualize Minions in action.

To summarize: Computer users can download avast! GrimeFighter’s scan tool to have their PC examined for free. It finds anything that slows the PC. If users then want to clean their PCs, they may buy their own GrimeFighter license, to purge Grime from the PC. GrimeFighter’s minions do all the maintenance work… while you surf the web or sip a cup a tea. For more information, please visit our website.

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