Free Virus Scan

I remember reading in someones post that there was a good free virus scan available somewhere but I cant find it. Can anyone recommend a good one?

 

AVG antivirus? http://majorgeeks.com/download886.html

Or AntiVir? http://majorgeeks.com/download955.html

 

I use to use this a while back

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

J

 

The best and its free ---- avg

Hi mr wolf,
i've been using avg anti virus grisoft since my norton ran out of subscription a year or so ago it has caught every beasty my pc has had the misfortune to come in contact with. And updates are every couple of days so try it i think you'll be impressed it will check you incoming and out going mail and certifie it on the every mail you send so do it today and keep those beastys away or at least in your new virus vault.

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

rob

 

Whats the difference between AntiVir and AVG?

 

Do you know if AntiVir puts anything in the startup things, IE takes up any MBs at boot?

 

Mr wolF you might be referring to the panda antivirus scan

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

 

Yea, but I don't want it taking ANY unless I start the program. Can I do this somehow?

 

Yea, but I will run it when I'm on websites and such, I don't want anythin running when I run games.

 

Hi Max,
Although I don't recommend it, yes you can turn off the resident scanner, but like I said, I don't recommend it.

 

Then I recommend ending the process.

That way its not running during games, yet when you reboot it comes back.

Then you dont have to worry about forgetting.

 

I support what the guys are saying here too.

Even if you leave it running, 6mb of ram is not gonna make 1fps of difference

 

Hi everyone

The fact that most of virus come from email and "mailicious" websites doesn't invalidate the fact that most antivirus cause a non negligible overhead to the system (non negligible is very relative/subjective, I know). I don't receive emails with virus because my mail provider offers good antivirus (and also I don't open "strange" mails). I don't use IE (I use firefox and I'm careful with what I permit) so virus from those kind of sites don't affect me much. But sometimes, I need a AV just to scan some downloaded file or a friends disk, etc. And I would like to have some AV that offers the option to not install services and/or background processes. Does any of the AVs mentioned in the thread work like this?

Thank you and sorry for my bad english.

cya

 

Max Powerz
Major Geek Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,127

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Yea, but I will run it when I'm on websites and such, I don't want anythin running when I run games.

Max:
I run all of the following free malware. None of them are running in background. I run them manually when they have upgrades or database updates available or when I've downloaded files I don't completely trust (scanniing the file or its folder only).

AntiVir http://www.free-av.com/
AVG Anti-Virus http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
A2 Free http://www.anti-trojan.net/en/
Ad-aware http://www.lavasoft.de/
Spybot via FTP ftp://ftp.download.com/pub/win95/internet/spybotsd12.exe
Google Toolbar (to stop popups) http://toolbar.google.com/
ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp?lid=pdb_za1

On-Line:
Housecall Anti-virus http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
TrojanScan http://www.trojanscan.com/

Happy trails,

 

Oops:

SpyBot http://spybot.safer-networking.org

 

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