Do you know what virus are probaly not. You can get a virus from just
visiting a web site. I did a couple of weeks ago from Microsoft Download
Center website but my virus software caught it and took care of it. So in
this case you must not surf the web that much. And for your question i do
not know of any scanners for just scanning feature.
<PSiegmann@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am looking for a good virus scanner that is just that: A scanner.
>
> I don't need a big suite that with an integrated firewall and
> background scanning and real time protection and what not. I don't
> need all these things since I patch regulary and don't allow every
> activeX applet to run and don't download dodgy software.
>
> With that practice I never caught a virus in in the last five years.
> (I run every four months a few online virus scanners just to be sure,
> and never got an alaram)
>
> I just need a scanner because sometimes I want to try some shareware
> and want to scan the installation file first. For that, I have
> currently AVG (free edition) installed but that thing comes with all
> that annoying real time protection baggage, I turned everything off,
> but it stills installs a special background service which needs to be
> active, without it, it won't even scan one single file.
>
> So, my current practice is to deactivate this service, until I need to
> scan a file, then I reactivate the AVG service, open up AVG, it moans
> and groans about all the deactivated background scan- and real time
> protection options yawwwnn... and only then I can scan finaly the
> file.
>
> So, all I want is just a scanner. with no services that need to run,
> no real time protection, no e-mail scanning no nothing. Just a scanner
> that I can fire up on will to scan a file sometimes.
>
> Does such a scanner still exists? Or did they die together with DOS?
>