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and Spyware tools for your computer.
An online virus scanner should never be considered a
substitute for an installed antivirus scanner. But if
you suspect your installed antivirus is missing a threat
or you simply want a second opinion, an online scanner
can be a valuable adjunct to security. Each of the
following online scanners are considered best-of-breed
and can offer important adjunct protection.
Trend Micro's Housecall is the only one of our Top
Online Scanners to offer cleaning or deleting of
infected files. Housecall can scan the entire
system, or selected drives and folders. Trend's new
version of Housecall is slower and more cumbersome
to navigate than previous versions. Updates and
detection are not quite as reliable as the Kaspersky
options below. Select Housecall only if cleaning or
deletion is desired.
The fast and extremely efficient Kaspersky Online
Scanner can be configured to scan individual files,
folders, and drives - or target all email related
files found on local and mapped drives. Kaspersky
updates much more frequently than most other vendors
and their heuristics (unknown virus detection) are
among the best. This makes Kaspersy online scanner
one of the most reliable available. Detection only.
The online Kaspersky File Scanner checks single
files less than 1Mb in size. Multiple files can be
zipped as one and scanned, provided the resulting
archive is 1Mb or less. With unsurpassed Trojan
detection, Kaspersky Online Virus Scanner is ideal
for checking email and IM attachments. Detection
only.
You can submit single files only to Virustotal, via
their online scanner or by email. File size must not
exceed 5Mb. The file is scanned by several different
scan engines and results reported for each.
Detection only.
Like Virustotal, Jotti returns scan results for
several different scanners. The scan engines used by
Jottie differ from those used by Virustotal and thus
it's often worthwhile to use both. Detection only.
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