anyone know a good free virus scan/remover tool?

magoogy

:oI NEED A GOOD VIRUS SCANNER AND REMOVER - FREE - MOST JUST SCAN YOUR COMPUTER AND THEN TELL YOU WHATS WRONG, BUT, DOESNT LET YOU REMOVE THEM.....

BOUGHT NORTON INTERNET SECURITY AND WHAT A SCAM... SLOWED MY COMPUTER TOOO

billchapman

AVG seems to be the most popular free virus utility.

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

Monkeyboy_2

I agree - AVG is great - I have recommended it to many!

angel

Yes, AVG is very good.

I also do an online scan with http://housecall.trendmicro.com/. its very thorough and it feels good to double check.

manchestman

Avg is brilliant, with automatic downloads every 2 weeks.
however, it is an anti-virus software tool and does not catch everything, particularly spyware that slows down your machine. spybot is pretty good for a free tool in getting rid of unwanted intruders. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
If you feel your pc is saved, you can always donate to the guy who invented it.
I remember that there was a very good thread about 4 weeks ago that listed all the decent protective software for your pc, but i can't for the life of me, think who it was that started it or even what the title was. you might want to undertake a search or maybe someone else remembers?

scally_2

I use panda as my permenant virus protection and after using Norton i find it much better. Not had any problems with it.

They also offer a free online scan:

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

It scans, disinfects and eliminates viruses from all parts of your system, hard disks, compressed files and all your e-mail. It's updated every day too.

I have links to the free online scan on all of my
websites so that people can find it easily.

Combined with spybot :

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

and Ad-aware (free version from download.com):

http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html

to check and remove spyware, malware, trojans, dailers etc you have lurking on your system, you have a pretty good set up for free ;D

scally

celticfc

magoogy  Avg is in my opinion the best anti-virus, however it sounds as though what is happening is that these virus's are going into your system restore, so it doesn't matter how many times you scan your system with anti virus software once the virus is sitting in your system restore files it stays there.Your virus software is detecting it but not removing it. The only way to shift it ( assuming your on windows XP ) is this,

1, go to start - control panel
2, select system
3, click on the system restore tab
4, check the turn off system restore box

a prompt will ask if you really want to turn off system restore, click yes. The little egg timer will appear for a minute or so. When it goes scan your PC again and you will find your virus's have gone.

Now go back to start - control panel - system - system restore and check the box to turn system restore back on. The egg timer will run for a minute again and all will be fine...........................hopefully.

Next go to start - help & support, go to your system restore page and create a new restore point.

if you need any help PM me.

Good luck!!

andy.

P.s. You might want to consider a firewall, it is a must if you have a broadband connection.

http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

here is a good one......................free too..

Geoggy

i used to be an AVG user but find the reee version of https://www.avast.com much better.

to all you avg users - try avast and you will be amazed at stuff it finds avg doesnt and how easy the auto update is.

pjrouse

have read good things about this free AV too

http://www.free-av.com/

16011996

i recommend avg too, been using it for about 6 months. comp much much better than ever was before.

nuclearnick

AVG is ok , but is not as good as Avast anti virus, free, good updates, and it detects viruses, i used avg for over a year until some viruses got through, i switched to avast, and no problems since https://www.avast.com