Norman Malware Cleaner riconosce e rimuove malware specifico (tutte le varianti dei virus Agent, Bagle, Blaster, BZub, Cimuz, Dloader, Dumaru, Feebs, Haxdoor, JS/Small, Lovgate, Mitglied, Mydoom, Mytob, Navipromo, Netsky, Newdotnet, OnlineGames, Renos, Rootkit, Sasser, Sdbot, Sircam, Small.KI, Smalltroj, Sober, Sobig, Spyaxe, Spybot, Spywad, Startpage, Stration, Swen, Tibs, Yaha, Zafi, Zlob, Zotob; 355.967 virus totali nel database).
Non è un sostituto a un antivirus, quanto uno strumento da usare su sistemi già infetti. Il programma può:

• kill running processes that are infected
• remove infections from disk (including ActiveX components and browser helper objects)
• reveal and remove rootkits
• restore correct registry values
• remove references created by malware in hosts file
• remove windows firewall rules for malicious programs

E' consigliato usare Norman Malware Cleaner in modalità provvisoria.