Free Virus scanner anyone?

[blakerwry]

Can anyone recomend a free anti virus utility. I know some have been mentioned before but I can't seem to find them.

 

[Jake the Dog]

i've installed AVG Anti-Virus on several systems wirth great success. it immediately found several viruses on each system, uncluding 5 instances of bugbear on one.

updates can be sheduled and Grisoft seems to provides rehgular updates. see http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_downl.htm?session=bb47645946b50521c9c0373dc208a06a

 

[Mercutio]

http://housecall.antivirus.com/start_corp.asp

Works well enough for me, and as a bonus doesn't actually install anything on my PCs.

f-prot for DOS does a pretty good job, too.

 

[Tea]

Another vote for Housecall. Or, if you want an almost-free one: PC-cillan OEM, which comes from the same people. You get it free with motherboards (depending on the brand), you install it, you register it, and it downloads updates as soon as they become available. "Great" you say.

Then, one day it pops up a message saying your time has run out and now you have to pay. "Bastards!" you say, "what did you give me, a lousy two months?" Yup. You only get two months. "What ridiculous amount of money do they want to extract from me?" you ask yourself.

Oh. US$7. For a whole year. Ha! That's ... er ... 59 cents a month. In my book, that's a bargain. And it's a pile better than Nortons. Just remember to switch that "POP trap" crap off, as it saps performance and is buggy. You only need POP trap if you are stupid enough to be running Outlook.

(And no: I won't apologise for calling Outlook users stupid. That's just the way it is. Deal with it.)

 

[blakerwry]

LOL, i thought the trivia included with house call was a neat idea... until it tried to sell me PC-cillin!

 

[cquinn]

Another online scan that has be recommended to me before:
Panda Antivirus

http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/activescan-com.asp

I switched to it after housecall decided one day that it did not want to
work on my system anymore. Otherwise I have AVG running on the
other system.

I also used to grab the F-Prot DOS scanner to make emergency disks
from; but they don't seem to update as often.

 

[Santilli]

Another Housecall user...

I use it everytime I go into areas I don't know, or, I get some weird email on another one of my email accounts that I have to access from a PC.

I've pretty much decided all my email stuff is going to be downloaded onto my mac.

It seems to be well vacinated, and never seems to get any virus'.
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:aok:

 

[e_dawg]

You only need POP trap if you are stupid enough to be running Outlook.

(And no: I won't apologise for calling Outlook users stupid. That's just the way it is. Deal with it.)

Deal with it, you say... hmm, I don't think Tannin would be too pleased if I strangled his furry friend.

 

[Jake the Dog]

i for one, am offended by Tea's comment.

 

[Cliptin]

i for one, am offended by Tea's comment.

Consider the source. This little girl makes a habit of insulting humans twice her size. Humans that can hold things in one hand. Like edged weapons. Orangutan hand-to-hand combat is pretty limited.

 

[Tea]

I have very long arms. Oh, and upper body strength only marginally less than that of a gorilla. Also, I am very good at climbing things. On the other hand, I am not too keen on this edged weapon thingy. My stepmother has a gilt-edged dinner set with blue willows on it. Is ot sort of like that?

 

[Cliptin]

I have very long arms. Oh, and upper body strength only marginally less than that of a gorilla. Also, I am very good at climbing things. On the other hand, I am not too keen on this edged weapon thingy. My stepmother has a gilt-edged dinner set with blue willows on it. Is ot sort of like that?

Let's put it this way, with proper application edged weapons would reduce your very long arms to nubs and upper body strength without leverage is inconsequetial. Please stop annoying the humans. You would look awfully funny typing with your feet.

 

[Fushigi]

Let's put it this way, with proper application edged weapons would reduce your very long arms to nubs and upper body strength without leverage is inconsequetial. Please stop annoying the humans. You would look awfully funny typing with your feet.

Hmm. How do you know Tea doesn't type with her feet already? :mrgrn:

- Fushigi

 

[Tea]

Damn! My secret exposed. How did you guess? .. Oh, you saw me at your wedding, of course. (Tannin says thanks for the slice of cake, by the way.)

 

[Tannin]

Cake?