What are the Best Tools for Virus Removal
>> Sunday, October 11, 2009
As a network administrator, helpdesk tech, or other computer professional, you don't remove that many viruses. Most company networks are secure enough that viruses are not really an issue. The issue is when friends, family and people from work get viruses in their home computers. There are so many request for virus removal that it is easy to be desensitized. I am as guilty as anyone when someone asks for help and I tell them they should take their computer to the Geek Squad, or Nerd Herd. There are literary thousands of viruses, and unless you are a professional virus expert it is impossible to keep up with all the removals. So, listed below are some popular virus removal tools and programs.
Some viruses are so specialized that you must first discover the virus you have before you can remove it. There are many no-cost online virus checkers. Listed here are but a few to help isolated the infection: {.......}
These websites will scan and remove viruses, or isolate and inform you to what you have.
BitDefender Scan Online
Dr.Web Online Check
eTrust Antivirus Web Scanner
Ewido Online Scanner
F-Secure Online Scanner
Jotti's Online Malware Scan
Kaspersky Online Scanner
McAfee FreeScan
Panda Activescan
Symantec Security Check
Trend Micro Housecall
WindowsSecurity
Adware and Spyware Removal
Lavasoft Ad-Aware 2008
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Microsoft Windows Defender
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.6
Removal Programs for Specific Infections:
About:Buster - Removal of CWS HomeSearch Hijacker or res:// hijacker
Combofix - all in one removal tool for many issues
CWShredder 2.19 - CoolWebSearch Removal Tool from Trend Micro
Elite Toolbar Remover
I-Lookup Toolbar Uninstallers - Version 1 and Version 2
Incredifind and PerfectNav Uninstaller
Kill2Me - Removal of Look2Me infections
Lop.com Uninstaller
OmegaKiller for removing hijackers like
Omegasearch.com Prosearching.com. Search200.com. Mysearchnow.com. Searchexe.com
SDFix - another multitask removal tool
SmitRem for removing Spyaxe, SpySheriff, Winhound and others
VX2.BetterInternet for XP/2000 for Removing Look2Me
VX2.BetterInternet for Windows 9X for Removing Look2Me
WildTangent Remover
Tools for Investigating Adware and Spyware Infections
HijackThis
SysInternals Process Explorer
Sysinterals RootkitRevealer
Programs to Delete Undeletable Files
Pocket Killbox
Remove on Reboot Shell Extension
Unlocker
TCP/IP and Winsock Repair Utilities
LSPFix by Cexx.org
Winsock XP Fix
XP TCP/IP Repair utility
