Best free online virus scanner?

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There are NO bests. Any day of the week one could be better then the other. Thats the problem with virii. Too many and waiting for AV updates to be installed.

The name brand online scanners mentioned above all are excellent.
Housecall, Kapersky, Fsecure ... are the common ones that I run when called to help a problem. Some of other scanners scan for free but charge you to clean. How trustworthy is that? Panda used to clean for free, but not anymore. Haven't used the bitdefender in a while. I also avoid Northin and Mcraphy.

Regardless of which AV program you use, it is always good to try a competitor product once and a while. Its surprising when you find something. Free online scans are great for this purpose.

Antivir, Avast, and AVG, have excellent FREE for home usage AV programs. If you don't have a AV program, you should consider one of these. Its also important to look at your scan and protection settings. As installed tend to be weak with most programs.

Spybot(immunizer and manual scanner) and Spywareblaster(blocker only) are pretty good blockers. They also do not hog any resources. You'll have to update them on your own.

Sophos/AVG have free antiroot kits. Use one of them at least montly.

Windows defender is also free. It actively blocks. Some other free antispywares only scan to clean(but run on bootup doing nothing but resource hogging). You have to pay to have active blocking.

Filehippo has a pretty good collection of programs.

If a program finds stuff regularly, it could be false alarms or you might need to look at your online habits.

There are a couple more threads here that mention good protection programs.
 
av-comparative.org. try that.
NOD32+ccleaners+spybot+adaware+spyblaster+a2squared

but free i would go antivir or avg
 
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I would have to say F-Secure has the best online scanner. It scans and cleans everything - viruses, adware, spyware, all forms of malware, including rootkits (it loads black ice into the active-x module). It uses Kaspersky's version 6 engine I believe, so it's essentially Kaspersky.
 
Drew have you seen F-secure for free? I only see it for free for 30 days. TIA.
 
I can vouch for Avast. They upgrage almost daily and I've NEVER had a virus, and that's with looking at XXX sites. Seems those sites are loaded with viruses and trojan horses....
 
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Drew have you seen F-secure for free? I only see it for free for 30 days. TIA.


Haven't seen F-Secure for free lately. The online scanner is of course free.
 
As much as I like to throw in the bones, here's the scoop RE: internet porn sites.

(Here in NA) First off, there are some legit porn sites (properly registered and monitored by various internet regulatory bodies on a regular basis) that look regular membership subscriptions , and then there are some "fly-by-nite" porn sites that are non-legit, registered outside of the country to dodge various regulatory bodies from monitoring, snooping, etc. and are also actively soliciting information willingly/unwillingly from various surfers who surf by their site ("data-mining" is the word used here). These are usually the sites that cannot be trusted to begin with.

And then there are some "referral" sites that the website owner makes money by surfer clicks, and then there are the non-legit porn sites that are totally in-existence solely for collecting surfer's information, attempt to inject trojans/virus to initiate backdoors, etc. The latter ones are the ones that are extremely dangerous and lurkers shall never even tempt fate by teasing (or testing) the waters. Some of these sites are done intentionally to lure would-be pedophiles, etc. collect their information which may lead to arrests on a global-wide basis.


The most dangerous sites of all would be warz sites and cracks sites for most of them (over 90% of them) comes with some form of backdoor trojans in their SW product cracked keys, or when lurking past their sites, the intentionally manipulated sites would attempt to inject malicious codes (most commonly in the form of javascripts and such) to test/penetrate your computer.

And then there's this silent banker virus going on....


Don't test the waters if you don't know what you want to do (just beat off if you want to get rid of your urge) and go visit questionable porn sites. purge your internet browser cache on a regular basis, delete all your passwords and logins cached in your browser and get a legit AV software.

My 2c's worth for we have our own viruslabs in-house.

Quest-TD
 
Wow. You're quiet the expert on internet porn and security implications Quest!

Get a sandbox like SafeSpace and not worry about any of it.
 
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Drew99GT:

We do internet threat analyzation and we have honeypots all over the world.....(and have no affiliations with govt agencies or porn sites of any kind)

Believe it or not: most large scale porn sites are set up just as professionally as, say, CNN or Yahoo! for they not only have to watch out for security breach in terms of online subscriber's data security, but also have to watch out for DDoS from internet mafia or triads for extortion and threats of any kind.

Unless you operate a major operations on the internet then you'll have to watch out for orchastrated bot-based DDoS attacks down the road....this is happening (abeit on a somewhat smaller scale since the Xmas 2 yrs ago) on a daily/weekly basis....partly due to vulnerabilities found on most high-powered personal PCs (lacking protection or user's sheer ignorance RE: internet security), partly due to internet crime (so easy to commit when you are 1/2 way across the globe and your local legal jurisdiction has no control over you...).


I used to call internet " the latest borderless frontier" and I still hold true to that calling.

Q-TD
 
Tried to download AVG and the pop-up some installation files may be corrupt !!!! HUH??
 
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