ANN: avast! Virus Cleaner

[Eda Kucera]

ALWIL Software is pleased to announce the release of avast! Virus
Cleaner version 1.0.142.

avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will completely remove
selected viruses & worms from your computer. It can handle the
following families: Badtrans, Blaster, BugBear, Ganda, Klez, Nimda,
Opas, Sircam, Sobig, Yaha, including all variants.

For more information please visit our web site at
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html.
You may download the trial version here:
http://www.avast.com/files/eng/aswclnr.exe
Download size: 244 KB

avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will completely remove
selected viruses & worms from your computer.
It is able to stop viruses that are active in memory, it will
disinfect your files, remove virus registry & startup items, and even
delete the virus working files.
Currently, it can handle the following virus families: Badtrans,
Blaster, BugBear, Ganda, Klez/Elkern, Nimda, Opas, Sircam, Sobig,
Yaha, all including the latest variants.


Eduard Kucera
ALWIL Software
http://www.avast.com

 

[Blinky the Shark]

You may download the trial version here:

If it's trialware, it's not freeware.

 

[John Corliss]

ALWIL Software is pleased to announce the release of avast! Virus
Cleaner version 1.0.142.

avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will completely remove
selected viruses & worms from your computer. It can handle the
following families: Badtrans, Blaster, BugBear, Ganda, Klez, Nimda,
Opas, Sircam, Sobig, Yaha, including all variants.

For more information please visit our web site at
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html.
You may download the trial version here:
http://www.avast.com/files/eng/aswclnr.exe
Download size: 244 KB
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Eduard,
I'm confused. You say that it's a trial version, but your site says
that the program is a "free tool". Can you please clarify?

 

[BoB]

Eduard,
I'm confused. You say that it's a trial version, but your site says
that the program is a "free tool". Can you please clarify?

I was curious too, so DL'd and installed it. There is no install,
just the executable. It's scanning now. No mention, of course, about
registering, paying, etc, since it just an executable file.

Poor choice of words when they said trialware?

Well, that didn't take long. The log it made:

9/9/03, 8:15:28 AM
Memory scanning started...
No virus body found in memory.
Memory scanning finished (4.8s).

 

[John Corliss]

I was curious too, so DL'd and installed it. There is no install,
just the executable. It's scanning now. No mention, of course, about
registering, paying, etc, since it just an executable file.
Poor choice of words when they said trialware?
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BoB,
Thanks for the clarification. I kinda thought that "poor choice of
words" might be the case.