Freeware from ALWIL Software downloads
avast! Virus Cleaner 1.0.207
avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will help you remove selected virus & worm infections from your computer - it doesn`t replace antivirus program! When your computer gets infected by a virus or worm, the virus often schedule itself to be run automatically when you start your operating system; some of them even register themselves to be run when any other application is started. Removing of it is not as simple as deleting it - after deleting the worm file, your operating system might not be able to start your applications (such as Explorer) any more. In order to properly remove the worm from your computer, it is often necessary to make additional fixes in your system registry, delete the links from your Startup Folder etc. Here the avast! Virus Cleaner comes - it will find and remove selected worms from your computer, as well as fix the registry and startup items to make sure your system will work correctly after the disinfection. Many worms - when activated - create additional working files on your hard disk. Even though these files alone are harmless, they are useless and they should not be there. When avast! Virus Cleaner detects and removes a known worm from your computer, its working/temporary files are removed as well. The same applies for worm-specific registry entries etc. avast! Virus Cleaner can also deactivate the virus present in memory. There is no need to start the tool from a Safe Mode - just start it and it will take care of the rest! avast! Virus Cleaner removes the following worm families: - Badtrans - Beagle (aka Bagle) (A-L, U, W-AH) - Blaster (A-I) - BugBear (A, B-H) - Ganda - Klez/Elkern, all variants - MiMail, (A, C, E, I-N, Q, S-V) - Mydoom (A,B,D,F-N including the Trojan horse) - Nachi/Welchia (A-K) - Netsky (aka Moodown) (A-AB) - Nimda - Opas (aka Opasoft, Opaserv) - Parite (A-C) - Sasser (A-F) - Scold - Sircam - Sober (A-G) - Sobig (B-F) - Swen, incl. UPX var. - Yaha (aka Lentin) all var. - Zafi (A-B)
avast! 4 Home Edition 4.6.652
avast! 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use. avast! obtained VB100% awards in 2002/5 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows. avast! Home Edition includes the following components: On Demand Scanner - with Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button. On Access Scanner - special providers to protect: the most of available E-mail clients, Instant Messaging - ICQ, Miranda etc., Network traffic - Intrusion Setection - lightweight firewall, P2P protection for Kazza, BitTorrent etc., Web shield - monitors and filter all HTTPtraffic, NNTP Scanner - scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and of course all operations with files on PC. avast! can scan inside the huge number of different packers including ZIP, ARJ, RAR etc. even the Outlook Express .dbx files. Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only). Screen Saver Scanner - scans PC during your coffee breaks. Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them. True incremental updates of size under 100 KB are available at least twice a week and within couple of hours in the case of emergency of new virus. avast! automatically checks for new updates - downloads, installs and loads them without restart or logoff. Program upgrades are available time to time, they are incremental too (about 300 KB). avast! 4 Home is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japaneese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish etc. 20 languages - check http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html to download avast! in your language. You will download a 60 days fully functional demo. You will obtain the FREE license key by E-mail after the registration at http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG.