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Online Virus Help

Free Virus Help, Free Online Scans

Here are some of the free online anti-virus programs, anti-virus software and free scans from the best anti-virus specialists.

Most of these companies offer free tools to remove the latest virus, worm, trojan horse and backdoor malware.

Free Virus Cleaning from avast!

ALWIL Software, makers of avast! antivirus tools, provide a free download to detect and fix viruses.


Free Virus Scanners at Kaspersky Lab

File Scanner

Kaspersky's Scanner for single files.

Here you can upload an individual file so Kaspersky Lab can scan it for virus infection.


System Virus Scan

Kaspersky Lab's online scan
From this page Kaspersky Lab provide a comprehensive, free, online scan of your system. This is a serious virus detection scan and could take a long time (hours!).

This online tool will not actually clean out or fix the problem if viruses are found. But you can get a free trial of Kaspersky's anti-virus and security tools and have the problem repaired that way.

Also, you could just go directly to get the free trial of Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

Kaspersky Lab North America Free Trials
Kaspersky Free Trial

Free Virus Tools from BitDefender

System Virus Scan

Virus Scan at BitDefender

On this page at BitDefender you can have your computer scanned for infected files.


Virus Removal Tools

Free Virus Removal Tools

BitDefender provide tools to remove specific viruses, worms, backdoors, trojans and other threats.

If you know you have some specific virus you can download a dedicated tool to remove it.

Below is a partial list of malware that BitDefender can clean (at the time of me writing this).

(This list is actually for the earch engines and people using the virus name to search for a solution. This will help them find this link to the free repair tool at BitDefender.)

Trojan.VB.AE, Win32.Antiman.A@mm, Win32.Auric.A@mm, Win32.Badtrans.B@mm, Win32.Bagle.A@mm, Win32.Bagle.AU@mm, Win32.Bagle.{C-E}@mm, Win32.Bagle.FO@mm, Win32.Klez.A@mm, Win32.Klez.D@mm, Win32.Klez.E@mm, Win32.Klez.H@mm, Win32.Lirva.B@mm, Win32.LovGate.C@mm, Win32.Netsky.B@mm, Win32.Netsky.Q@mm, Win32.Nimda.A@mm, Win32.Nimda.E@mm, Win32.Sober.AD@mm, Win32.Sober.A@mm, Win32.Sober.B@mm, Win32.Sober.C@mm, Win32.Sober.D@mm, Win32.Sober.F@mm, Win32.Sober.O@mm, Win32.Sobig.A@mm, Win32.Sobig.B@mm, (Palyh), Win32.Sobig.C@mm, Win32.SoBig.E@mm, antisobig-en.exe, antisobig-en.exe, Win32.Sobig.F@mm, Win32.Worm.Mexer.E, Win32.Worm.Mytob.BY, Win32.Worm.Opaserv, Win32.Worm.SQLExp.Slammer.A, Win32.Worm.Welchia.A, Win32.Worm.Welchia.B, Win32.Yahaa.D@mm,

Free virus removal tools at Grisoft

(makers of AVG Anti-Virus)


Virus Removal Tools

Free virus removal tools at Grisoft

These are dedicated tools to remove specific viruses, worms, backdoors, trojans that you know you have.

Also, check on the same page for Grisoft's 'Vcleaner' utility: it is to clean up a bunch of worms and backdoors etc. all at once.

Here is a list of what the Vcleaner removal tool will detect and remove. (Grisoft will be adding to this over time so the list might not be complete.)

  • I-Worm/Stration
  • Worm/Generic.FX
  • Agent.A-AN
  • BackDoor.Agent.A-Z, AA-BG
  • Downloader.Agent.AS
  • I-Worm/Atak.A-I
  • Bagle.DA-IU
  • I-Worm/Bagle.A-Z, AA-JD
  • I-Worm/Bugbear.D
  • I-Worm/Mytob.A-GC
  • I-Worm/Netsky.A-Z, AA-AD
  • I-Worm/Sasser.A-F
  • I-Worm/Zafi.A-E
  • PSW.Bispy.A-E
  • Win32/Gaelicum
  • Win32/Hidrag

Free virus tools at Panda


You can get a free virus scan at Panda Software.

There is more than just this free tool at Panda. They also have a free rootkit scan, spyware scan and repair tools.

Also you can get a Free trial of Panda Antivirus+Antispyware

Free virus removal tool at Norman

Norman have a program you can download and use to remove specific virus and malware problems.

At the time of writing the program from Norman is ready to help you with:
Agent, Bagle, Blaster, BZub, Cimuz, Dloader, Dumaru, Feebs, Haxdoor, JS/Small, Lovgate, Mitglied, Mydoom, Mytob, Navipromo, Netsky, Newdotnet, OnlineGames, Renos, Rootkit, Sasser, Sdbot, Sircam, Small.KI, Smalltroj, Sober, Sobig, Spyaxe, Spybot, Spywad, Startpage, Stration, Swen, Tibs, Yaha, Zafi, Zlob, Zotob.

Get it here at the Norman site.