Reviews of Unlocker

1. 
   Gisle Vanem

   Reviewing 1.9.1 (Jun 2, 2011)

   Top-notch program. Kudos to the coder.
   
   I finally got every trace of Adobe Reader removed; the
   Adobe\Reader 8.0\Resource\CMap\Identity-H and
   Adobe\Reader 8.0\Resource\CMap\Identity-V
   
   etc.
   
   Using SysInternal's 'handle' on those file, didn't reveal who locked the files. I wish 'unlocker' could tell me, but no. At one time I thought "Windows File Protection" was involved, but no. Setting "SFCDisable=1" didn't help.
2. 
   Psychlone

   Reviewing 1.9.1 (Apr 14, 2011)

   Only someone like Lysa (Phat Esther) would give 1 star for missing a download link... that's NOT MISSING. That is clearly not a review for a program, it's a sign that Lysa forgot to clear her (his?) cookies and clear cache...
   
   Seriously - someone needs to start a petition to ban intellectually-compromised people like Phat Esther from voting or even posting at all. Nonsensical reviews, broken English and a horrible lack of common sense are all traits that are despised in the real world, but are condoned here for some reason. When I'm God, the B& Hammer will fall hard on people like this.
   
   To everyone else: Just click on Phat Esther's name and read other 'reviews' that they have done for other products. Then you'll see that NO ONE SHOULD REFER TO PHAT ESTHER'S REVIEWS for anything. It's all nonsense and ego-based self-fulfilling prophecy of 1-star reviews that don't make any sense.
   
   As for Unlocker, it works perfectly, just as it always has. The new UI elements are welcome, but not as much as the new ability to remove deep directories. This little program as ALWAYS been a Godsend!
   
   Thank you, Cedrick for creating an excellent program that does exactly what it's supposed to!
3. 
   Phat Esther

   Reviewing 1.9.1 (Apr 14, 2011)

   1 star for missing download link, if repaire will delete, until not.
4. 
   testmenot

   Reviewing 1.9.1 (Apr 13, 2011)

   I just love Unlocker. Nice to see it is still being improved.
5. 
   reviewer

   Reviewing 1.9.1 (Apr 13, 2011)

   Fabulous! Finally I can get risk of those pesky long path in the temp folder. Great update. Unlocker is the best without real competition.
   
   djb247365: All my personal and office machines are Windows 7 and Unlocker works perfectly. And please be serious IOBit Unlocker is a joke, it does not do half the things this program does, and it often crashes. Lame, not even a real alternative. Right click the installer and make sure to install as admin.

Discuss Unlocker

1. Apr 15, 2011 - 8:20 PM
   Psychlone

   @ Russell (aka coover) : Please upload any suspicious file to http:\\virustotal.com\ BEFORE just blindly believing what Microsoft Security Essentials tells you.
   You do realize that MSSE didn't even make the top 10 in the top-10-shootout this year, last year or the year before that, right? It's literally the bottom of the barrel for antivirus - tons of false-positives, very poor detection rates, and simply is just isn't even a decent program and only gives it's users a false sense of security.
   
   Nowthen, I've taken the liberty of uploading Unlocker1.9.1.exe directly to Virustotal.com for a full analysis from 41 different antivirus programs...and guess what? One of them (NOD32) also showed a false positive - that means that 40 other antivirus programs didn't detect a single thing.
   
   Here's the deal: The Unlocker website (http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/welcome.htm) can be a little misleading to anyone that's not proficient with a computer. You can easily be misled to click one of the "Download Now" buttons and end up with a registry cleaner or a free registry scan instead of actually downloading the program you set out to get.
   
   Now, about the program itself, I've been using it for years without any problems, and this new version (as of 4/12/2011, version 1.9.1) works just as well as all the older ones... in fact, BETTER because of the new functionality introduced in this new version.
   
   So, anyone that's scared to download or use this program really should just upload the program to VirusTotal.com and see for yourselves.
   
   Here's the VirusTotal.com complete report on Unlocker1.9.1.exe from today, 4/15/2010
   
   Antivirus Version Last Update Result
   AhnLab-V3 2011.04.15.00 2011.04.15 -
   AntiVir 7.11.6.143 2011.04.15 -
   Antiy-AVL 2.0.3.7 2011.04.15 -
   Avast 4.8.1351.0 2011.04.15 -
   Avast5 5.0.677.0 2011.04.15 -
   AVG 10.0.0.1190 2011.04.15 -
   BitDefender 7.2 2011.04.16 -
   CAT-QuickHeal 11.00 2011.04.15 -
   ClamAV 0.97.0.0 2011.04.16 -
   Commtouch 5.2.11.5 2011.04.15 -
   Comodo 8357 2011.04.16 -
   DrWeb 5.0.2.03300 2011.04.16 -
   eSafe 7.0.17.0 2011.04.15 -
   eTrust-Vet 36.1.8274 2011.04.15 -
   F-Prot 4.6.2.117 2011.04.15 -
   F-Secure 9.0.16440.0 2011.04.15 -
   Fortinet 4.2.257.0 2011.04.15 -
   GData 22 2011.04.16 -
   Ikarus T3.1.1.103.0 2011.04.15 -
   Jiangmin 13.0.900 2011.04.15 -
   K7AntiVirus 9.96.4398 2011.04.15 -
   Kaspersky 7.0.0.125 2011.04.15 -
   McAfee 5.400.0.1158 2011.04.16 -
   McAfee-GW-Edition 2010.1D 2011.04.15 -
   Microsoft 1.6702 2011.04.16 -
   NOD32 6045 2011.04.15 Win32/Adware.ADON
   Norman 6.07.07 2011.04.15 -
   Panda 10.0.3.5 2011.04.15 -
   PCTools 7.0.3.5 2011.04.15 -
   Prevx 3.0 2011.04.16 -
   Rising 23.53.04.05 2011.04.15 -
   Sophos 4.64.0 2011.04.16 -
   SUPERAntiSpyware 4.40.0.1006 2011.04.15 -
   Symantec 20101.3.2.89 2011.04.16 -
   TheHacker 6.7.0.1.175 2011.04.15 -
   TrendMicro 9.200.0.1012 2011.04.15 -
   TrendMicro-HouseCall 9.200.0.1012 2011.04.16 -
   VBA32 3.12.16.0 2011.04.15 -
   VIPRE 9024 2011.04.16 -
   ViRobot 2011.4.15.4412 2011.04.15 -
   VirusBuster 13.6.307.0 2011.04.15 -
   Additional information
   MD5 : 2d81f8ba9f8b8f060ca0de887d9ef41a
   SHA1 : 6e45431b698cdb7be8f1a41266be7b327f33ad38
   SHA256: e6062e3f5cb60f73f75dbd640450cb1d8ad116b0a14180a0843f383a2707bc6c
2. Mar 9, 2010 - 4:22 PM
   coover

   Microsoft, through IE8, is reporting that the website "has been reported as unsafe". I suspect that this is untrue, but it has been so long since this application has been updated, it is possible that someone has taken it over and is using it to distribute malware.
   
   I would really like to try this update for my Win 7 64 bit machines, but hesitate to do so until it is shown to be safe.
   
   I decided to use another browser, Google Chrome, to look at this application ... no warning this time. I downloaded Unlocker and then used Microsoft Security Essentials to examine the file ...
   
   The report : The file contains a "TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.B" which is described this way...
   
   "TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.B is a program that notifies a web server of its presence without user consent. It may be bundled with an installation program as a file "eBayShortcuts.exe".
   
   In this case, the file is the Unlocker exe.
   
   Microsoft may be wrong, but until the program has been shown to be safe, I think you may wish to stay away from it.
3. Jan 6, 2010 - 1:56 PM
   boony

   So, has this been abandoned? The sites been down for awhile.
4. Dec 3, 2009 - 8:20 PM
   psycros

   IE8 reports 1.8.8 as an unsafe file, possibly containing malware or links to malicious sites. Neither Avast nor Spyware Detector found anything though.