Any good trojan scanners?
Frank
recommendations?
Thanks
Frank
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Regards
Frank
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Puedo perdonar todos los errores, menos los míos.
Robert
ese lo he usado varias veces, muy bueno
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Frank
>www.trojanscan.com
>ese lo he usado varias veces, muy bueno
Hombre, muchas gracias.
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>> Did a search, but there seems a few out there. Any personal
>> recommendations?
>> Thanks
>> Frank
>> --
>> Regards
>> Frank
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>> Las correcciones siempre son bienvenidas.
>> Puedo perdonar todos los errores, menos los míos.
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/abwhitt
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Frank.
BillR
> recommendations?
> Thanks
> Frank
Are you asking about checking for an existing infection or
preventing/immediately finding future infections? The answer is
rather different. The following answer is oriented toward the former.
The latter is also rather dependent upon what other software you use,
how you use it (e.g., firewall, antivirus, antispyware, filesharing),
which sites you visit, and what files you download.
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GFI is supposed to have a very good scanning engine. Per Robert, the
online scanner can be found at
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Pest Patrol has an online scanner! Just found out about it today. The
new version this summer is supposed to be much better. The prior
version had a rather mixed reception.
http://www.pestscan.com/Scan.asp
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All of the major antivirus products (Norton/Symmantec, Panda, Trend,
etc.) detect some trojans, although how well...? For some links, see
my Aug 15, 2003, post "Re: Sneak Preview: revised PL About, Info,
Links pages" online antivirus extract below. I know there are others
as well. Spybot, ad-aware, and some other adware/spyware scanners
also detect some trojans.
Also see the discussion of startup managers, startup monitors, and
process monitors in ACF. The thread mentioned above also has four
good sites for gathering more information.
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Other free scanners:
Bazooka is unsatisfactory.
X-Cleaner Free is poor.
SwatIt (free scanner) is below average.
SpyHunter (free scanner) appears to be about average -- and a bit
better than ad-aware which in turn is a bit better than Spybot this
spring (fall for those "down under") for general adware/spyware. I
don't know how any of these do against serious malware.
Spy Audit (free version) is very fast! and appears to catch everything
that ad-aware and/or Spybot report, but without identifying the
location or specific malware, so it is useful only as a very quick
initial check. It also reminds me of McAfee: threats are exaggerated.
Hope this info helps. Please let us know what you find, especially if
you talk to a security newsgroup.
BillR.
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> The following sites offer online virus scanning.
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>
> BitDefender
> by Softwin
> http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/Msie/index.php
>
> McAfee VirusScan Online
> by Network Associates
> http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/avdownload/fsdownload.asp
>
> Panda ActiveScan
> http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/default.asp
>
> PCPitstop
> (Panda based?)
> http://pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
>
> Rav
> by GeCAD (now MS owned?)
> http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/
>
> Symantec Security Check
> (Norton AntiVirus related)
> http://security.norton.com/default.asp?langid=us&venid=sym
>
> Trend Micro Housecall
> (Pc-Cillin related)
> http://housecall.antivirus.com/
>
>
Vijay
> recommendations?
> Thanks
> Frank
In terms of free Anti Trojans the product below seems to be a very
good choice, ONCE infected. Next to an Anti-Trojan this seems to be
the best free choice.
System Safety Monitor (SSM)
http://maxcomputing.narod.ru/ssme.html?lang=en
Infact it seems to be capable of handling even new virus, worms and
Trojans that are not known or will become available in the future.
Vijay
Frank Bohan
> recommendations?
> Thanks
> Frank
> --
> Regards
> Frank
Free online trojan scanner:
http://www.trojanscan.com/
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ś Little Miss Muffett was a gluttonous arachnophobe.
Dennis Roark
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> Did a search, but there seems a few out there. Any personal
> recommendations?
> Thanks
> Frank
You might try Stinger.exe, put out by Network Assoc. (McAfee). It is
free, updated frequently, and scans and removes the latest virus / worm /
trojan threats. It helped me out with the Blaster Worm last week.
Matthew Robinson
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BillR
> Frank <abw...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<ajp6kvoidea6ajbag...@4ax.com>...
> > Did a search, but there seems a few out there. Any personal
> > recommendations?
> All of the major antivirus products (Norton/Symmantec, Panda, Trend,
> etc.) detect some trojans, although how well...? For some links, see
> my Aug 15, 2003, post "Re: Sneak Preview: revised PL About, Info,
> Links pages" online antivirus extract below. I know there are others
> as well. Spybot, ad-aware, and some other adware/spyware scanners
> also detect some trojans.
HackFix (.org) compares how a dozen antivirus products performed
against ~100 trojans (and many variants) as of the end of May. The
ACF favorite AVG flunked, while avast and AntiVar were average.
100% "Detects all versions"
antidote <-- OnDemand (only?), Manual update
Kaspersky AVP
McAfee VirusScan
Norman/Symmantec
Trend PC-cillin
avast 98% <-- OnAccess, OnDemand, email, Removal, Scheduled,
AutoUpdate
antivar 97% <-- OnAccess, OnDemand, email, Removal, Scheduled,
AutoUpdate
RAV 96%
Norton 95%
bitdefender AVX 94% <-- OnDemand (only?)
CA/eTrust EZ-Antivirus 73%
AVG 64% <-- OnAccess, OnDemand, email, Removal, Scheduled,
AutoUpdate
Source:
http://www.hackfix.org/miscfix/icons-av-all.shtml
No testing details are given other than the update date of the product
and whether all (tested) variants, some, or none were detected.
BillR
BillR
> BillR...@hotmail.com (BillR) wrote in message news:<b12d1235.03082...@posting.google.com>...
> > Frank <abw...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<ajp6kvoidea6ajbag...@4ax.com>...
> > > Did a search, but there seems a few out there. Any personal
> > > recommendations?
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> against ~100 trojans (and many variants) as of the end of May.
I should have expanded my prior post to incrothis in my earlier post.
HackFix also compares 4 specifically antitrojan products. The outcome
rather surprised me.
Detects all, some, or no tested versions of each specific trojan.
PestPatrol, PestPatrol 99% <-- (Online scanner PestScan presumed
comparable)
AstonSoft, PC DoorGuard 93%
Moosoft, The Cleaner 91%
?? Anti-Trojan 54%
Source:
http://www.hackfix.org/miscfix/icons-at.shtml