Looking for a good on demand virus scanner

[whayface]

Looking for a good on demand virus scanner. It does not need all the
bells and whistles such as e-mail scanner, etc.

I just want something to scan my system WHEN I WANT TO.

I tryed the paid route of AVG but it kept my Office tool bar from
load, would not let me run REGEDIT, would not let the icon for
Netscape show, among other thing.

So as I said i am looking for a good on demand virus scannerto scan my
system when I want it too. It does not need all the bells and
whistles such as e-mail scanner, etc.

TIA

 

[Roger RamJet]

Looking for a good on demand virus scanner. It does not need all the
bells and whistles such as e-mail scanner, etc.

I just want something to scan my system WHEN I WANT TO.

I tryed the paid route of AVG but it kept my Office tool bar from
load, would not let me run REGEDIT, would not let the icon for
Netscape show, among other thing.

So as I said i am looking for a good on demand virus scannerto scan my
system when I want it too. It does not need all the bells and
whistles such as e-mail scanner, etc.

TIA

If you have the discipline to ALWAYS check mail attachments and
downloads manually, F-Prot for DOS is all you need even on
Win2K/Winxp. You can add the function to check files and folders from
the mouse context menu by adding a link to your Sendto directory. If
you want to see the results of a normal scan, right-click on the
shortcut and uncheck the "close on exit" box.
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fpdos.html

Manual updates are here:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/updates/f-prot/
Macro:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/updates/f-prot/dos/

Simply download sign.def, sign2.def and update.ini and copy them into
the F-Prot directory. The same goes for macro.def. It only takes a
minute to do and the files are updated almost daily.

 

[Vic Dura]

Looking for a good on demand virus scanner. It does not need all the
bells and whistles such as e-mail scanner, etc.

I just want something to scan my system WHEN I WANT TO.

I tryed the paid route of AVG but it kept my Office tool bar from
load, would not let me run REGEDIT, would not let the icon for
Netscape show, among other thing.

So as I said i am looking for a good on demand virus scannerto scan my
system when I want it too. It does not need all the bells and
whistles such as e-mail scanner, etc.

http://www.f-prot.com runs in a DOS window. Works well on win98se. I
don't know if/how it runs on XP.

 

[Onno Tasler]

http://www.f-prot.com runs in a DOS window. Works well on win98se. I
don't know if/how it runs on XP.

Works on XP without any problems, used it for quite some time and had no
problems so far. No difference to usage under 98.

bye,

Onno

 

[NoWay]

Try an online check, java machine enabled,

try one of these.

1- http://www.globalhauri.com/html/onlineservice/livecall.html

2- http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html - one file at a time, you
have to upload it

3- http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

4- http://www.ravantivirus.com/index.php

5- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

6- http://www.pandasoftware.com/

 

[Bryan]

Try an online check, java machine enabled,

try one of these.

1- http://www.globalhauri.com/html/onlineservice/livecall.html

2- http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html - one file at a time,
you have to upload it

3- http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

4- http://www.ravantivirus.com/index.php

5- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

6- http://www.pandasoftware.com/

Others:
Online Antivirus scanners:
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http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-07/0240.html

Credit to °Mike° 24hshd

 

[whayface]

http://www.f-prot.com runs in a DOS window. Works well on win98se. I
don't know if/how it runs on XP.

Thanks all for the reply.

 

[BillR]

Looking for a good on demand virus scanner. It does not need all the
bells and whistles such as e-mail scanner, etc.

I just want something to scan my system WHEN I WANT TO.

I tryed the paid route of AVG but it kept my Office tool bar from
load, would not let me run REGEDIT, would not let the icon for
Netscape show, among other thing.

So as I said i am looking for a good on demand virus scannerto scan my
system when I want it too. It does not need all the bells and
whistles such as e-mail scanner, etc.

TIA

In addition to F-Prot, take a look at antidote or BitDefender.

Are you looking for on-demand disk scans or on-demand file or folder
scans (which I typically do via right-click menu)? Are you
comfortable adding your own menu entries?

Other full featured possibilities:
avast!
AntiVir
(AVG has not faired well this year in several detection comparisons)


Numerous online scanners such as:

BitDefender
by Softwin
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/Msie/index.php

McAfee VirusScan Online
by Network Associates
http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/avdownload/fsdownload.asp

Panda ActiveScan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/default.asp

PCPitstop
(Panda based?)
http://pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp

Rav
by GeCAD (now MS owned?)
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/

Symantec Security Check
(Norton AntiVirus related)
http://security.norton.com/default.asp?langid=us&venid=sym

Trend Micro Housecall
(Pc-Cillin related)
http://housecall.antivirus.com/