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[Sakaki]

Well, I thought this would be a good idea, to cut back on threads asking for a virus scanner to clear up a virus or two.

I recommend using more than one virus scanner to find things, as no single one is perfect, and will miss some viruses.

Several good ones to use are;


Spybot S&D ~ www.safernetworking.or/en/download ~ It's a good scanner, it'll pick up a lot.

Avast! ~ www.avast.com ~ One of my personal favorite scanners is Avast!, it'll pick up most trojans, spyware, and adware. It also automatically updates.


Hijackthis ~ www.spywareinfo.com/~merjin ~ Great virus scanner, though I recommend you do NOT use this unless you know for sure what you are doing. Remove the wrong thing and you can mess up your PC badly.


AdAware ~ www.lavasoft.de ~ Good virus scanner, picks up most adware and some spyware/keyloggers.

Microsoft Anti-Spyware ~ http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx ~ It's actually a pretty good scanner, I suggest using it, Avast, Spybot S&D, and Adaware.




If you know any other good scanners that I left out, PM me and I will add them to the list.


Hope this helps you guys.