Taking a cue from the yesterday’s post, involving anti virus uninstallers, today, we are going to post a list of online virus scanners.
This can be specially useful when there is no host anti virus on a machine and you do not want to install one either. All these tools install are a few plugins, BHO’s, etc. Check them out. They are not arranged as per any order. (We have a list, I am just copy pasting from it!)
1. TrendMicro Housecall (our favourite): http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
2. ESET Online Scanner: http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/
3. Kaspersky Online Scanner: http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
4. McAfee FreeScan: http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
5. CA Online Virus Scanner: http://ca.com/us/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
6. Panda ActiveScan: http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/
7. Panda Nanoscan: http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml
8. Bitdefender Online Scanner: http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
9. F-Secure Online Scanner: http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml
10. Ewido Anti-spyware Online Scanner: http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/ (Ewido has been acquired by AVG now!)
Now, we know that there are more out there, but, then those lack in some way or the other. For example, one has to download atleast 20 MB of software for some to work, some work only on Internet Explorer. Some have to improve their scanning technology. That is why we have not included them in our list.
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