Good Web Site that Scans your Files for Malware

[jaugustine]

Hi,

I had no malware issues for many years. However, I will not assume my PC
is "clean".

Can someone recommend a good web site that will scan a selected folder or
drive for malware?

Thank You in Advance, John

 

[Jack Toff]

Hi,

I had no malware issues for many years. However, I will not assume my PC
is "clean".

Can someone recommend a good web site that will scan a selected folder or
drive for malware?

Thank You in Advance, John

Why don't you use some of the highly recommended free software?

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Hi,

I had no malware issues for many years. However, I will not assume my
PC
is "clean".

Can someone recommend a good web site that will scan a selected folder
or
drive for malware?

Thank You in Advance, John

I would use these programs rather than a Website.

Download and run the free versions of these two programs.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

SpywareBlaster
http://download.cnet.com/SpywareBlaster/3000-8022_4-10196637.html

 

[Ken Springer]

On 9/9/11 10:26 AM, Bruce Hagen wrote:

Download and run the free versions of these two programs.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Excellent program. MS's technical help remotely ran this software on a
computer I'm having problems with. If MS will use it, should be pretty
good.


--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 6.0.2
Thunderbird 6.0.2
LibreOffice 3.3.3

 

[Paul]

Hi,

I had no malware issues for many years. However, I will not assume my PC
is "clean".

Can someone recommend a good web site that will scan a selected folder or
drive for malware?

Thank You in Advance, John

You can download the CD here.

http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208282163

Iso image of Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 (196 MB)

When the file finishes downloading, you use a program like
Imgburn or Nero, to convert the ISO9660 file into a bootable CD.

Then, you can boot the computer with it. It is actually a copy
of Gentoo Linux, with a scanning program running on top of it.

As long as your modem/router is already running, and supports
DHCP, that OS will be able to get an IP address and connect
to kaspersky Labs to get definition file updates. That's how the
scanning software keeps up to date.

You use tick boxes in the program window, to select partitions to scan.
It takes about 2 hours to scan 50GB worth of C: drive. The drive
lettering in the program is "not logical". It turns out that
what I call "C:", the program calls "E:". If you don't know which
one to click to scan, click all of them.

I've tested it by placing the EICAR fake virus on the disk, and
it was able to detect it. I've never had it detect anything else,
which could either be good or bad, depending on your point of view.

I don't think that disc boots from a USB DVD/CD drive. It needs
to use an optical drive connected directly to the motherboard.
I've had some other Linux do that as well, but not all of them
do that. Some work quite nicely from a USB optical drive.

Paul

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Hi,

I had no malware issues for many years. However, I will not
assume my PC
is "clean".

Can someone recommend a good web site that will scan a selected
folder or
drive for malware?

I see no one has yet answered your actual question, but have (for
various reasons) provided recommendations for downloadable scanners.
Here are a couple of online virus scanners that are from companies I
would trust:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA-Labs/security-threats/tools/online-scanner

There are others, but they are either currently unavailable/offline,
or from companies I'm not sure I'd trust...

As others have noted, an online scan may not be the most effective way
to scan a system that is currently infected - once the malware gets
into memory, it is an uphill battle to detect and remove it.
--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.