Virus Scanners

[The Neon Peon]

Just today, my gmail and the attached facebook account were hacked. The scanner I am using didn't bring anything up, so I was wondering if anyone here knew of some free ones that I could download that might catch that sort of thing if it was on my computer.

[oVo]

a few you can try...

Malwarebytes, anti malware . . . I run this one regularly.

F-Secure Online Scanner

STOPzilla

If you search online and find a program called Malware Defender RUN AWAY!
It's a scam that infects, then detects and tries to sell you the cure.
It is disguised to look like a microsoft product, don't let them in.

[The Neon Peon]

a few you can try...

Malwarebytes, anti malware . . . I run this one regularly.

F-Secure Online Scanner

STOPzilla

If you search online and find a program called Malware Defender RUN AWAY!
It's a scam that infects, then detects and tries to sell you the cure.
It is disguised to look like a microsoft product, don't let them in.

Thank you very much. Malwarebytes did find an infected file.

Now I just need to recover the passwords. but that should be much of a problem.

[Kimber68]

I also like AVG, it is usually pretty effective.

[pimpdave]

A Scanner Darkly

[BigBallinStalin]

While watching that, I got the same jittery weird but fun "OH SHIT, THEY"RE ON TO US!" feeling just like from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[nietzsche]

Free: Avira is the best, you don't even notice you have it installed. It has an annoying pop-up tho, but if you google it, you find the solution for that.

Non Free: Nod32, is a bit lighter than Avira, a bit better.

AVG is good, but a is heavier on resources.

There are those who say Karpersky is the best of all, but I haven't tried it. It isn't free.

[natty dread]

I can vouch for AVG being really heavy on resources. I have to leave it running for the night because scanning on the background slows the computer waaay too much. And usually it takes about 2 nights to scan the whole computer... so I'm going to give Avira a shot, I've heard good things about it.

Btw I'd like to know, do I need to uninstall AVG first before running the installation program for Avira? Or can I do it the other way around?

[beezer]

AVG actually allowed some malware to get through my computer. Now I use Avast

http://www.avast.com/index

[natty dread]

Wow, I changed to Avira and my computer is way faster. Good riddance AVG.