F-Secure, Trend Micro, Symantec, Pand, BitDefender and Windows scanners were tested. Which one is the best?
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F-Secure Online Virus Scanner
No virus will survive against F-Secure. Program perfectly kills viruses, Trojan horses and backdoor programs. Spyware and rootkits has a better chance to hide from F-Secure, that’s why I also recommend scanning your PC with an anti-spyware.
You should use Internet Explorer, because other browsers are not supported. If you are using Firefox 2, you can install an extension, which is called “IE tab”. It will make F-Secure think, that you are using IE.
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Trend Micro Housecall
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 “Housecall” and Trojan horses escape too. “Rootkits” has even bigger chance to hide from this program.
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Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner
That is the only one scanner, which works with Windows Vista. It perfectly detects popular viruses, but most of the spyware, Trojans, rootkits and other pests were not detected. And we also need Internet Explorer to use Windows Live Scanner.
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Softwin Bitdefender Online Scanner
It kills all popular viruses, but most of other pests were not detected. I recommend this scanner only if you don’t have many free HDD space, because this scanner needs only 13 MB.
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Panda Software Active Scan
“Panda” scanner will save us from popular viruses. 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.
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Symantec Security Check
“Symantec Security Check” is the worst online scanner. It perfectly detects viruses, Trojans and spyware, but the problem is that to remove any pests, you need to buy an ordinary anti-virus.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
That is some helpful information, online scanners are perfect for when our computers have been compromised without an anti-viral program installed.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:51 am
Each time i come across these kinds of articles, i never seem to see Kaspersky or Nod32.
I Spend a great amount of time checking binaries for malicious activity via a lot of different tool sets, and my best experience for scanning computers and so forth, has always been Kaspersky and nod32.
If you wanna scan a single file, you shouldn’t put you trust into a single anti virus engine, in such a case you sould check out virustotal.com or virusscan.jotti.org
November 21st, 2007 at 7:24 am
That’s is right. Kaspersky and NOD32 are the best and my favorite anti-viruses, but their online scanner weren’t tested.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:57 am
I agree, Nod32 en Kaspersky are the best on-line scanners.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Because they provide just detection. No Cleaning support !
June 11th, 2008 at 6:10 am
i reckon windows live one care should be up the top because it is the best one we had and we tried all of them and windows live one care came on top
June 15th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Windows live one care?
This is a put-on right? Besides missing exploits entirely it’s rendered one machine completely non bootable.
Every sceanrio is different, there isn’t a “one package get’s ‘em all” (unfortunately). I will concur with the F-Secure rating at the moment though, it has been very effective.
June 28th, 2008 at 1:53 am
“THIS INFORMATION IS VERY HELPFUL”and this should more attractive
July 5th, 2008 at 3:45 am
it is so useful to find online scane
August 28th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
F-Secure is the best had it for a year and with trojans it deletes them with ease and doesnt tear up files or the computer. Also very strong Firewall on the Security center. havent got a virus ina bout 4 months.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I tested Symantec online scanner and it helped me many more time..
It is really useful scanner..provides virus and security scan…..i can recommanded to all users who need it
December 12th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Very helpful. Dont use the Kaspersky scanner, it will steal your information and quietly send it to Russia.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am
How do you know that?
February 28th, 2009 at 3:02 am
anyone who encountered the conflicker worm virus?
i’ve tried a lot of scanners but it didnt clean my system.
i think the antivirus which can remove this virus will be the best one
June 13th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
i hat you
December 27th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Curious thing about F-secure though. I scanned my box and “f-secure claimed” it found 5 trojans. Now I’m not saying that THEY’RE COMPLETELY FULL OF CRAP but I am saying that I scanned my system with nod, symantec and and couple of other progams and they all came up clean. The reason I am skeptical about F-secure? It’s the only software the refuses to show you which files on your system that they believe have a trojan etc. So in other words, f-secure might be COMPLETELY FULL OF CRAP. Who knows what they’re actually claim to be trojan. They might infact be freaking txt files, how are you supposed to know if they don’t tell you what they’re removing?