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01-03-2009
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| | Re: Does some one knows a good virus scanner that is just a scanner? To name a few. On line and updated each time you run it. Does not install and all are quite effective http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/ http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/ http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/virusscanner -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. <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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01-03-2009
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| | Re: Does some one knows a good virus scanner that is just a scanner? Yeah I mentioned the online scanners.. here are 2 more lhttp://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/ http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ "Peter Foldes" <xxxx@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:Ou8F1CebJHA.4412@xxxxxx Quote: > To name a few. On line and updated each time you run it. Does not install > and all are quite effective > > http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/ > http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/ > http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/virusscanner > -- > Peter > > Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others > Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. > > <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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