[AIO] Online scanners, browsers, Free antivirus and MORE !

SaSuKi · April 3, 2011

Securing Your System.

Online Scanners:

Most of the major Antivirus vendors offer the ability to do an online scan – useful as another check on your system. Why use an online scanner? An online scanner cannot be infected by malware hiding in Windows files and these scanners will not make changes to Windows core files. An AV installed on your system can be disabled or corrupted by malware. Many require you to use Internet Explorer as your browser and that means they can take advantage of IE’s ActiveX technology as part of the scan. However, most have been updated to allow use of alternate browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

BitDefender Online Scanner - IE, Firefox, Chrome

Virustotal - IE, Firefox, Chrome

CA Threat Scanner - IE only

ESET Online Scanner - IE, Firefox, Netscape, Safari

F-Secure Online Scanner - IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome

Kaspersky Online Scanner - Currently inoperative

McAfee Security Scan Plus - IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

MS Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner

Panda ActiveScan - IE, Firefox

Symantec SecurityCheck - IE, Firefox, Safari, Netscape

Trend Micro HouseCall - All

All Browsers for *Windows:

Internet Explorer is still the most popular browser but its popularity has meant that it is the most common target for attack. Other browsers are gradually becoming popular as well and now they are also coming under attack. Most browsers contain an automatic update feature and you should always be using the most recent version. IE uses something known as ActiveX controls and many experts believe they contribute to the browser’s vulnerability.

Internet Explorer

Firefox (also called Mozilla Firefox)

Paid Antivirus Applications:

Do you really need an AV? The answer is ‘Yes’. A good AV will provide protection – not perfect of course but as long as the programme updates its definition files regularly (daily is preferable as a minimum) then it is a very useful tool in your armour. Find one that suits you - one that you are comfortable using. That way you'll find it easier to master the way it works.

NOTE – only ever have one AV installed and running on your system. Having more than one installed may seem like a good idea, but most AVs contain a ‘real time’ scanning system. If you have more than one installed then each system will be constantly trying to check files that the other system has just checked, and so on.

Free Antivirus Applications:

Avira AntiVir Personal

AVAST!

AVG

Microsoft Security Essentials

Panda Cloud Free AntiVirus

Firewalls:

What is a firewall? Think of it as a door, an entry point into your system. This door has a good strong lock. Only authorised users, in this case programmes and so on, can open the door, because you have checked them out and given them a key. Any user without a key will not be able to open the door. A bit simplistic I know but I’m sure you get the idea. A firewall can be hardware, such as a server, another PC or a router, and it can be software.

Online Armor Free

Ashampoo Firewall Free

Jetico Personal – 30 day evaluation

Agnitum Outpost Free

Sunbelt Personal Firewall - limited features

Comodo Free Firewall

ZoneAlarm Free Firewall

Note that fully featured paid versions are also available.

Other Protection:

Good system security is generally acknowledged to be a combination of protection programmes and user common sense. There is no one single application that will completely protect your system..

Other than an Antivirus and Firewall what else can you use?

Web of Trust offers a rating system that can help you determine if a site is safe to visit.

A custom HOSTS file is another useful addition. This is like a telephone directory that your system uses to find a web address. The HOSTS file is checked first to see if an address is present – if not a web server is then checked to find the relevant data. A custom HOSTS file contains a list of known bad sites and will not allow you to visit them.

IE-SPYAD Installation instructions.

On Demand Scanners:

This type of programme is simply a scanner that runs when you instruct it to do so – in other words it’s just like a normal piece of software. Many offer the ability to run scans at pre-scheduled times and some include a real time protection element to help prevent threats from installing themselves on your system. Such scanners are extremely useful as an addition to your protection.

Spybot Search & Destroy

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Ad-Aware

SUPERAntiSpyware

System Backup paid:

Do you backup your data? Sounds an obvious thing to do yet many users do not have any kind of backup at all. All those family photographs and videos that now sit on your computer – what would happen if, because of infection or a system failure, you were forced to re-install your Operating System and all existing data was lost? It’s really common sense to have backups and could save you untold torment.

Acronis True Image

Paragon Backup & Recovery

Norton Ghost

System Backup free:

Macrium Reflect Free

DriveImage XML Free

Paragon Backup & Recovery Free

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Matim · April 3, 2011

Well done.

Hephaestus · April 4, 2011

On Online Scanners, add http://www.virustotal.com/

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