Virus

[Chrissie]

I think I might have picked up a computor Virus, does anyone know the free download sites that will scan your computer to identify virus's please?

 

[BrendanS]

http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus
tho would be helpful if you could give some symptoms of infection

 

[JasB]

This'll cure it as well:- Here AVG

 

[tangofour]

I have been using AVG for years, since they first went live.

By carefully navigating the site you can track down their Free Edition. If you are a private user using on a home PC then I advise you get that edition - it is after all free.

If not then please buy their licenced version, they do a good job!

In 6 or 7 years AVG has trapped, detected or neutralised any attempts at infection on our homes 4 PC's and 2 laptops.

 

[thalassa]

AVG indeed excellent as a "daily" antivirus solution; as a one-off solution HOUSECALL is more appropriate, and according to magazines, slightly more efficient.

 

[EdWingfield]

I was recently defrauded when someone 'took over' my account.

The fraud section of the bank asked what anti virus program I used. I told them AVG. They required me to use another freebie to scan my pc and email them the results. They were happy my computer wasn't infected.

You may want to try out the freebie that satisfies the fraud team. Go to http://www.nanoscan.com/as/v1/principal.aspx

 

[EdWingfield]

ps. The bank refunded me for my loss.

 

[Chrissie]

Thank you all, what now interests me is that I have loaded a couple of the free ones on my laptop and run them, so one virus scan picks up and clears all, thn the next scan picks up more? Is that right?

 

[BrendanS]

Only run one realtime scanner at a time. Then use the others to scan hard disk . Yes, some scanners pick up some viruses better than others, so might find things that others didn't

Be wary of over inflated claims, as much of what is found is perfectly innocous