Is your PC acting up? Sluggish? Giving error messages?
There are more than 58,000 known viruses and related security threats lurking on the Internet today — and the number is increasing daily!
Infection from just one of these Internet-borne threats can erase your entire hard drive : - (
Are you at risk? Are you already infected?
Use these shareware and freeware tools to find out:
Free Online Virus Scan Why use a free online virus scan?
Always up to date Nothing to install
This free virus scan from Trend Micro is called Housecall. It detects viruses and cleans your PC. Use a free virus scan regularly in addition to your own virus protection
Found a virus? Need to know what it does to your PC and/or how to remove it?
There is a free virus search option above, simply type in all or part of the virus name, and hit GO
Panda Antivirus for Linux is a FREEWARE version:
Panda Antivirus for Linux is an antivirus for Linux servers and desktops.
Use this free online virus scan to disinfect viruses in systems with Linux platforms.
A free virus scan can supplement your antivirus software
avast! Virus Cleaner a free virus & worm removal tool
If, despite all the security measures you take, your computer gets infected by a virus or worm, it is necessary to disinfect your system somehow.
While for some viruses the only 100% reliable method of disinfection is restoring your system from backups, for many common infections this is not
really necessary and the virus/worm can be removed easily with this free tool from avast!
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avast! Virus Cleaner Free Download
Multiple Antivirus Engines
The use of multiple antivirus engines is far superior to that offered by just one product, although results DO NOT guarantee the harmlessness of a file.
Currently, there is no solution that offers a 100% guarantee, however ........
Sometimes your virus scan can pick up something which you are not sure really is a virus, so what do you do?
Get a second opinion, and find out if your virus is a false positive.
Allow the scan to finish, and then look at the path for the doubtful virus. Then you can enter the path of the suspect into one of the checkers below.
NOTE: The results DO NOT guarantee the harmlessness of a file.
Currently, there is no single solution offering
100% effectiveness for detecting all viruses & malware.
VirusScan Jotti VirusScan Jotti checker will allow 14 different anti-virus programs to check a single suspect file for you
(Currently: AntiVir, ArcaVir, Avast, AVG Antivirus, BitDefender, ClamAV, Dr.Web, F-Prot Antivirus, Fortinet, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, NOD32,
Norman Virus Control, VirusBuster and VBA32)
As with VirusTotal (below), simply enter the path of the suspected virus into the box at the top of the VirusScan Jotti page and hit 'submit'
VirusTotal VirusTotal is free and allows you to check a single suspect file using multiple antivirus engines to help
you decide if a virus really is a virus or a false positive.
This free service scans suspicious files for you using 26 antivirus engines: AntiVir, Authentium, Avast, AVG 386, BitDefender,
CAT-QuickHeal, ClamAV, DrWeb, eTrust-InoculateIT, eTrust-Vet, Ewido, Fortinet, F-Prot, F-Prot4, Ikarus, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft,
NOD32v2, Norman, Panda, Sophos, TheHacker, UNA, VBA32 and VirusBuster
As with VirusScan Jotti (above), simply enter the path of the suspected virus into the box at the top of the VirusTotal page and hit 'submit'
