virus scanner?

[fiji]

anyone know where i can find a free virus scanner online? thanks

 

[cursor]

The only ones I've seen are demos from www.download.com. You need to pony up and pay for a virus scanner IMHO.

 

[Disputant]

Hands down the best free virus scanner out there. It is called AVG.

http://www.grisoft.com

 

[armatage]

I'm also using AVG and it picked up a trojan horse the other day that a fully updated Norton missed.

AVG is also very easy to use

 

[garwain]

no mentioned housecall.antivirus.com yet?

I don't deserve credit for this one. I only tried it recently, but was told about it several times here and on other forums.

 

[Yodums]

no mentioned housecall.antivirus.com yet?

I don't deserve credit for this one. I only tried it recently, but was told about it several times here and on other forums.

I use Trend Micro's online virus scanner. It picked up things Norton couldn't pickup because it wasn't ran from the HDD which the virus gets ignored from those on the HDD.

About AVG, does anyone else have input on it?

 

[Disputant]

I am going to have to take a look at that House Call AV, sounds promising.

I use AVG on my second partition of my work computer. My initial impressions are that it is a much lighter client than Norton which I use on my first partition and that it is just as feature rich as Norton. I havn't done any testing on it as of yet though, but it is not the resource hog that NAV is.

 

[baqai]

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

same here, i have updated norton but it can't find JACK on my PC, but with housecall i found 7 trojans on my PC, i still think my computer is infected by some virus i get these wierd PackageFromTheWeb errors which are said to be caused mostly by viruses, but i can't seem to find any virus on my PC maybe i am just too paranoid

 

[Disputant]

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

same here, i have updated norton but it can't find JACK on my PC, but with housecall i found 7 trojans on my PC, i still think my computer is infected by some virus i get these wierd PackageFromTheWeb errors which are said to be caused mostly by viruses, but i can't seem to find any virus on my PC maybe i am just too paranoid

Damn, 7 trojans, hope I don't go to the same sites you do!

 

[Kendan]

I have been using AVG for about a year now and it works great
you can also use the www.sarc.com free online scanner too. Good luck

 

[baqai]

Damn, 7 trojans, hope I don't go to the same sites you do!

well i meant totaly 7 files were infected, most of them were those stupid joke's exe files my friends send on email and were found "Clean" from those hotmail or yahoo online scanners as well as from norton

it was better than having nearly 1500+ files infected with CIH virus a year back

Kendan i am on www.sarc.com but i can't seem to find the online scanner there maybe i am too high or something

Edit: I guess i WAS high lol found the link, its the third link under Virus Definitions

 

[Disputant]

well i meant totaly 7 files were infected

OK, that sounds better, I just got done cleaning up 1000 files or so on my brother's computer from some crap he got through e-mail.

 

[Tipycol]

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

same here, i have updated norton but it can't find JACK on my PC, but with housecall i found 7 trojans on my PC, i still think my computer is infected by some virus i get these wierd PackageFromTheWeb errors which are said to be caused mostly by viruses, but i can't seem to find any virus on my PC maybe i am just too paranoid

Is Norton really that bad? I've been relying on it for a few years, but WinXP needs a newer version and I was just about to buy it too but now I'm not sure.


Tipycol

 

[baqai]

i used to rely only on Norton myself too, but lately things were too strange on my computer files suddenly going corrupt and all and i started having my doubts on Norton and than one day when trying to logon to dalnet chat server i was told that i my computer is infected by trojan horse which made me jump ..

so i ended up finding this online scanner and turns out that my computer WAS infected by the trojan horse (which norton didn't find)

i even tried scanning the exact file which was infected with norton and was found clean and my copy was updated a day ago and no virus updates are available its all too scary for me

 

[Tipycol]

i used to rely only on Norton myself too, but lately things were too strange on my computer files suddenly going corrupt and all and i started having my doubts on Norton and than one day when trying to logon to dalnet chat server i was told that i my computer is infected by trojan horse which made me jump ..

so i ended up finding this online scanner and turns out that my computer WAS infected by the trojan horse (which norton didn't find)

i even tried scanning the exact file which was infected with norton and was found clean and my copy was updated a day ago and no virus updates are available its all too scary for me

Well guess I'll use two virus scanners now Thanks for the info bout Norton, and I thought I was mostly safe Well I know what to put on all my computers now


Thanks again

Tipycol