There are no viruses on the Microsoft Download website. If your software
caught it, it was a false alarm.
"none" <personal@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:VIL7l.14096$Ou7.5658@xxxxxx
Quote:
> 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
> news:331cdb0d-38e9-4750-9b88-8cf9636815c9@xxxxxx Quote:
>>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?
>>
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