Free Anti-Virus??

[Guy Smith]

I have had E-trust ant-virus for nearly a year now since upgrading to XP SP2
which demands an anti virus.
It scans every week and at no time discovered a virus. Following the 1 years
free trial CompAssoc are now asking for a $30 reg fee. Is there a free
(preferably for life) anti-virus that will satisfy the XP security centre?

[Galen]

In ,
Guy Smith > had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I have had E-trust ant-virus for nearly a year now since upgrading to
> XP SP2 which demands an anti virus.
> It scans every week and at no time discovered a virus. Following the
> 1 years free trial CompAssoc are now asking for a $30 reg fee. Is
> there a free (preferably for life) anti-virus that will satisfy the
> XP security centre?

Along with E-Trust there's a couple of them here and a few other freeware
security products as well.

Malware Cleaning :
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/malwarefix.html

Galen
--

"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and
its solution is its own reward."

Sherlock Holmes

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Guy Smith" >

| I have had E-trust ant-virus for nearly a year now since upgrading to XP SP2
| which demands an anti virus.
| It scans every week and at no time discovered a virus. Following the 1 years
| free trial CompAssoc are now asking for a $30 reg fee. Is there a free
| (preferably for life) anti-virus that will satisfy the XP security centre?
|

AVAST -
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE

AntiVir -
http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE

AVG -
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE

Multi AV "On Demand" scanner...


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to
remove
viruses, Trojans and various other malware.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

* * * Please report back your results * * *



--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

[Guy Smith]

ThankX,
I plumbed for avast. The home edition is free, it found 5 infected files
(that CompAssoc did not find) incluing a MyTob and it keeps the windows
security popup quiet!!

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Guy Smith" >

| ThankX,
| I plumbed for avast. The home edition is free, it found 5 infected files
| (that CompAssoc did not find) incluing a MyTob and it keeps the windows
| security popup quiet!!
|

You should run the Multi AV scanner I suggested. This will make sure that you are indeed
clean since the Sophos, Trend and McAfee modules may find something Avast misses.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm