Top 10 Free Online Virus Scanners
- Kaspersky Free online virus scan Kaspersky Anti-Virus is one of the mostly used Antivirus software and has got a Free online virus scan tool as well. Kaspersky provides a free File Scanner which will help you to scan suspicious file on your machine. The online virus scanner tool is extremely fast and efficient. It can be configured to scan individual files, folders, and drives. Detection only.
- Bitdefender Quickscan BitDefender QuickScan combines intelligent local scanning and in-the-cloud scanning to create an advanced online antivirus scanner which detects e-threats in memory. BitDefender QuickScan is very light on the computer memory, it requires only a very small browser plugin for client-side tasks. Detection only.
- Trend Micro Housecall Trend Micro’s Housecall is one of the few tools in our Top 10 Online Scanners to offer cleaning or deleting of infected files. If you are being attacked by popular viruses, than you need to scan your PC with Trend Micro Housecall. This scanner easily finds and kills popular viruses. But on the other hand, rare viruses usually aren’t found by this scanner and Trojan horses escape too. Updates and detection are not quite as reliable as the Kaspersky options above. Select Housecall only if cleaning or deletion is desired.
- VirSCAN.org FREE on-line scan service VirSCAN.org is another free online scan service, which will check the uploaded files for viruses, trojans, backdoors, spyware and other malware using different antivirus engines. You can upload any type of files and there is 10Mb limit per file. VirSCAN supports RAR and Zip decompression, but there should be less than 10 files in the archive. Detection only.
- F-Secure Online Virus Scanner F-Secure’s free Online virus scanner is capable of finding and cleaning viruses and trojans. But ability to clean the virus is not guaranteed. It works on Internet Explorer 6 or newer with ActiveX and Javascript enabled, or Firefox 3. There are different options available, like ‘Quick scan’ and ‘Full scan’. Detection & cleaning.
- Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner is the only scanner which works with Windows Vista. It perfectly detects popular viruses, but most of the spyware, Trojans, rootkits and other pests are not detected. And it only works with Internet explorer. By the way, its not completely free. They have a free trial and an upgrade costs $49.95. Detection Only.
- Virustotal Online Virus Scanner Virustotal is a free service which can be used to analyze suspicious files and facilitates for quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans and all other kinds of malware by antivirus engines. 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 around 30 well-known virus scanners and results reported for each. Detection only.
- Panda Active Scan Panda active scan is a free tool for detecting and eliminating viruses from your computer. It installs as an ActiveX control in your Web browser (Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher). Another good thing is that it scans our e-mail too. But on the other hand, this scanner doesn’t perfectly detect Trojans and backdoors. Detection and cleaning.
- FortiGuard Center Online Virus Scanner & Submission FortiGuard Center can be used to discover a suspicious file on your machine, or suspect that a program you downloaded from the internet might be malicious. You can use the free virus scanner to scan the files present in your computer for viruses. Only one file of up to 1MB can be checked at one time. You can also submit sample files for analysis in their research labs. Detection only.
- Jotti Online Malware Scan 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.
Other useful Free Online Antivirus tools
Virus.Org Rogue File Scanning Service DrWeb – Online virus check VirusChief – Free service for online virus scan Symantec Security Check ThreatExpert – Free Online File Scanner Filterbit – Online Virus Scanner NoVirusThanks – Free Online Virus & Malware Scan Service GFI Online Trojan Scanner
What you think of these free online virus scanners? Do you use any of these? Which one you prefer? Have missed any other good online virus scanner?
