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    Which of these free online antivirus scanners is best?

    Which of these popular FREE online antivirus scanners do you use and why (feel free to suggest your own):

    Housecall Trend Micro
    Panda Activescan
    BitDefender
    RAV Antivirus
    Kaspersky
    F-Secure
    PC Pitstop

    Can someone point me to a link that rates these?

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    Kaspersky
    Panda Activescan

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    Quote Originally Posted by ablang
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    Can someone point me to a link that rates these?
    online scanning engines will be similar to the company's released software.

    test results!

    security sticky!

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    Trend Micro

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    I agree with streling trend micor rules has found stuff that neither of the other have
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    avg free edtion works for me...

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    The scanners are FREE. Who cares which one is BEST; it doesn't really matter. Just use several of them and get better results than using a single scanner.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mireland
    avg free edtion works for me...
    I've really gone off AVG since I've been using Avast Free! I may give AntiVir a spin next - it seems to be the most effective freeware scanner.


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    Get your hands in your pockets and buy one ya tight sods

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    Seems to me that buying AV software is not necessary these days with so many freebies available. This is my first few month's in the land of the "free" and I'm loving it.

    I still have an active subscription to Norton IS (which includes NAV2004) until November, I removed the Internet Firewall because of resource usage and network issues, but couldn't install the Anti-Virus without it - so I was testing alternatives for a few weeks & never got around to buying one because Avast has kept the bugs out of my system thus far & I like the interface! I also check periodically with AVG & this morning I ran a Trend Micro Housecall scan which came up clean.

    "buy" schmy!

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    I used to use Norton, and now use AntiVir. I haven't found the paid versions to be any better than the free ones for my purposes.

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    I use AVG free and keep it updated, however, I also use Trend Micros free online scan to catch whatever might slip by AVG. So far, no bugs

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    At the office we use Symantec AV Corporate. We have the virus scanner installed on every server and mail server. I have not had a virus yet slip through the servers. I did an ad-ware scan on a PC today and SAV missed the virus Trojan.ByteVerify. It came in 3 times on this particular PC via Java Once and Internet Explorer 2 other times.

    I use Avast at home, I have used Antivir and AVG. AVG has let a couple of viruses download but always stopped them at execution just like SAV did on the PC I mentioned above. Avast found a program on my PC at home a few days ago. The program installed its directory structure but never infected me.

    It seems a virus will slip past all of them at some time. I have never had an infection from any of the AV's missing a virus. The code gets downloaded and stopped before execution.

    I don't think a paid version is any better than a free version depending on circumstances.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cdroman
    The scanners are FREE. Who cares which one is BEST; it doesn't really matter. Just use several of them and get better results than using a single scanner.
    Good point.
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