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Freeware - Security - Anti Virus

Welcome to HouseCall! Trend Micro's free virus & spyware scanning service - the only online scanning service available to all Web users. Give your PC a health-check while you surf the Web! There is nothing to install, just follow the simple instructions.

avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use (Both of these conditions should be met!). Features include Antivirus kernel, Automatic updates, Simple User Interface, Virus Chest, Resident protection. System integration, P2P and IM Shields, Integrated Virus Cleaner, Network Shield, Support for 64-bit Windows, and Web Shield.

Virus Removal Tools for 39 specific virus infections, act promptly, when a new, dangerous virus appears, timely intervention can prevent damage to your data, and help prevent the spread of the virus. Remove a virus for free, Kaspersky Lab has developed free virus removal tools. If your computer has been infected by any of the viruses listed you can download a free removal utility.

Get closer to the tricky world of data security with the seventh generation of BitDefender that allows you to customize your product so you can make it yours. Benefiting from previous experience, the new BitDefender Free Edition was designed with a centralized management console, which allows protection options configuration for all BitDefender modules. It is enough to open the management console in order to have access to all modules: Virus Scan, Scheduler, Live! Update, Quarantine, Reports.

Clean Zafi is a free tool to detect and remove all variants of the Zafi virus (b, c and d). Zafi is a mass-mailing worm that contains an infected attachment (pif, cmd, bat, com or zip) file. The worm may also attempt to lower security settings, terminate processes, and open a back door on the compromised computer.

AntiVir Personal Edition is completely free of charge for private and individual use, it detects and removes more than 80,000 viruses & is always among the winners of comparison tests featured in computer journals. Features include - resident Virus Guard to monitor file movements automatically (downloads), scanning and repair of macro viruses, protection against previously unknown macro viruses. Safeguard against cost generating dial-up programs, protection against trojans, worms, backdoors, jokes and other harmful programs. Easy operation, Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating. Protection against previously unknown boot record viruses and master boot record viruses. Support is free of charge via the AntiVir Bulletin Board.

AVG Free Edition - NEW version 7 now available - this is the well-known anti-virus protection tool available free-of-charge to home users. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Features include: AVG Resident Protection, AVG e-mail Scanner, AVG On-Demand Scanner, Basic Scheduled Tests, Free Virus Database Updates, Automatic Update feature, Easy-To-Use Interface, Automatic Healing of infected files, AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.

AV Defs Updater for F-PROT for DOS automatically provides updates to the classic F-PROT for DOS antivirus program and notifies you about it. It allows you to perform an automated Update of the antivirus definitions; Check for new releases of the antivirus engine; Create a configurable set of emergency disks; Create a universally usable general-purpose FreeDOS bootdisk.

Protect yourself from the Ganda virus, (Discovered: 18-Mar-2003) a highly spreading Executable Mass Mailer and File Infector. Download and run this removal from BitDefender in complete security and clean your system.

NOTHING beats having a good anti virus program installed but even these fail sometimes! SOFTWIN provides you with a powerful set of Virus Cleaning Tools, designed to detect and remove viruses that infected your system. These applications are also valuable because of their size, making them easily downloadable even with a slow Internet connection so that they can be readily transferred by e-mail to clients, friends or partners. If you suspect your system to be infected with one of the viruses listed, these free tools will be of great help, allowing you to repair the damages. Currently there are 23 virus on the list including, 'Backdoor.K0wbot.1.3.B', 'Win32.Yahaa.E@mm', 'Win32.Worm.Benjamin', and 'Win32.Klez'

A Freeware tutorial about computer viruses, trojans, and virus hoaxes & myths. You will learn how these beasts work (not enough to write one, just enough to understand them), how to protect yourself, and get some tips on how to recover if you've been attacked. Best of all, this tutorial is Freeware. All we ask is that when you redistribute it you don't do so via any BBS or other mechanism that also distributes viruses.