Where can i get a free virus scanner and remover?

[farley99]

Where can i get a free virus scanner and remover?

 

[FunkDoobious]

You can get free scanner/removers from most antivirus websites such as macafee, kaspersky.com etc. They will scan and remove a few select viruses but will not protect your computer. You can also get free trials from most of these sites aswell. Panda antivirus used to do a free av program for linux not sure if they do one for windows.

Hope this helps

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[jrbarnett]

I recommend AVG 6 Free Edition from

http://www.grisoft.com

and use it on 98, 2000 and XP boxes.

John

 

[rocmills]

I second the recommendation for AVG 6 from

http://www.grisoft.com

- works great, updates regularly, does scheduled scans, the whole nine yards!


--Roc
"Whatever one man can dream, another can accomplish" - Jules Verne

 

[farley99]

I get an error when trying to download...

http://files.grisoft.cz/softw/60/fe/avg6524fu_free.exe

Does anyone else get this error?

 

[jrbarnett]

Another alternative if you are a home user and want something to back up AVG is the DOS version of f-prot from

http://www.f-prot.com

- this is great as it can be run from a DOS bootdisk.

On other info not had problems downloading AVG installer, but have had it for ages and just ran updates as needed. I have this archived on CD now together with my serial no.

John

 

[TonHu]

Download is a pain, but eventually you'll get it ;-)

HTH
TonHu

 

[longrun]

I used and liked AVG for some time; however, I stopped using it after Panda AV found several viruses on machines that I thought were protected.

 

[Zelandakh]

qinetiq.com (not sure of spelling) had a good AV product - government approved!

 

[Marcs41]

That is funny longrun, as I and several friends had the exact OPPOSITE situation. Even the very latest and updated Panda was either not catching a virus AVG did find, and on several occasions ran 2 days behind on updates.
In the Antivirus domain, that is unacceptable.
Same goes for Norton BTW, that is a total disaster.

farley: Moral as Tonhu posted, be patient, at certain times the grisoft server is heavely accessed and you can get time-outs.

Marc
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