meggsie04 Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 I would like to take advantage of an ''Online Scanner'' as a back up to the "Spywaredoctor with Anti virus, and Spyware Detector. I am running on my XP Home. However Im wary of doing so, without information. Has anyone studied these programs, and can perhaps recommend one and any points that I may need to be aware of. I would really appreciate your imput. Thanking you, in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvenFixPc Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Why do you want a addition "online" antivirus / antimalware scanner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggsie04 Posted August 27, 2008 Author Share Posted August 27, 2008 Why do you want a addition "online" antivirus / antimalware scanner? I recently had my system crash, due to a bug, my virus protection wasnt picking up. After $200 dollars, hours of reading and help from you great blokes here in the 'forums'' I finally traced it to the system restore. Problem finally solved. I guess, its a question of security, to run an additional scan just to make sure nothing is lurking. Providing the program is good, I cant see it would hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvenFixPc Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Why do you want a addition "online" antivirus / antimalware scanner? I recently had my system crash, due to a bug, my virus protection wasnt picking up. After $200 dollars, hours of reading and help from you great blokes here in the 'forums'' I finally traced it to the system restore. Problem finally solved. I guess, its a question of security, to run an additional scan just to make sure nothing is lurking. Providing the program is good, I cant see it would hurt.Run a mcaffee stinger can never hurt, visit http://vil.nai.com/VIL/stinger/ for the latest version and run it on your machine. It is an standalone executable so you can take it anywhere on a usb stick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Housecall Trend Micro is the most popular. In my own little head at least. I've used it few years ago on a machine that had no other AV and it did of course pick up and delete some viruses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JedMeister Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 (edited) Why do you want a addition "online" antivirus / antimalware scanner?Personally I think its a great idea to get a second or third opinion on these things. No matter how good a AV is none of them are perfect. I've had experience with Panda Active Scan and I think it works well. I have had really good experience with one by BitDefender but for some reason I have been unable to get it to work for some time. Not sure why. Another possibility is the open source ClamAV, I think the original is made for Linux but there is a Windows port called ClamWin. It doesn't have a real-time scanner so you can install it alongside your regular AV. Edited August 29, 2008 by JedMeister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggsie04 Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 Hey Thanks guys, much appreciate your advice...... will check them all out over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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