Links to Online Virus and Trojan Horse scanners,

utilities and more

Microsoft Knowledge Base has prepared a list with links to Antivirus vendors.

PowerPoint slides from Surviving a Virus presentation 04/13/04

Free Online Scanners:

Panda Software free virus scan, heuristic system, updates at least once daily. Titanium is their retail product.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

Trend Micro's House Calls
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp

Bit Defender
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

RAV Antivirus
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/

Kaspersky Labs
http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus.html

PC Pitstop (uses Panda)
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp

CyberTech Help
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/misc/av.php

Command on Demand free online scanner
http://www.commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm

Symantec Online Virus & Security Check (If you get a script error, say ok and continue)
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

McAfee Avert Stinger...download detection tool...only for certain common threats not all
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

Trojan scanner by GFI requires IE5 or later
http://www.trojanscan.com/

Free Antivirus software:

AVG Antivirus by Grisoft this is version 6. Their commercial product is v.7
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

Recovery and removal:

Note: Fixes for specific viruses can be found at all major antivirus sites. Searching with Google will help you find a specific fix tool quickly.

Ultimate Boot CD -- 45 MB, but there is a download accelerator you can try on site
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Trojan Horse Detector & Remover v. 6.2.1 free for 30 days then $24.95
http://www.simplysup.com/tremover/

Hack Fix offers step-by-step Trojan removal instructions. Their scanner does not presently work.
http://www.hackfix.org/

The NoHack Project Anti-Trojan Warfare good info site for manual instructions
www.nohack.net/detection.htm

Sophos Emergency Trojan removal assistance:

http://www.sophos.com/support/disinfection/trojan.html

List of ports and associated services
http://www.nohack.net/ports.html

Virus removal instructions and tools:
http://www.claymania.com/removal-tools.html

Backup and Imaging:

Acronis True Image 7 $40 (will also do simple partitioning) Reviewed as BEST product by many magazines. When cloning or restoring an image to a new, larger hard drive, I could not get the new drive to boot under XP, SP1. Still working on this with tech support.
http://www.acronis.com

DrvImagerXP v. 2.2 by Lexun Freeware
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/2/13-2-39.shtml

DrvCloner XP v. 2.1 by Lexun Freeware
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/2/13-2-43.shtml

Free Backup XP, v.3.7.1, works for Win9x-xp
http://www.softcities.com/dfg-BackUp-XP/download/12809.htm

Casper XP from Future Systems Solutions, a well reviewed cloner $44.95
http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/

Registry:

Registry Medic $20 to register

http://www.iomatic.com

ERUNT freeware. 2000/XP Backs up entire registry and allows you to restore it. Everyone should have this!!
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm

Registry Commander, a freeware replacement for Windows RegEdit
http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/system/fwregtools.shtml

Diamond CS Registry Prot monitors changes to registry and lets you authorize them which is
useful in preventing Trojans
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regprot.html

RegMon allows you to actively monitor the registry and see what keys and being accessed and what changes are made.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regmon.html

RegCleaner v. 4.1 win 9x - XP
http://www.setiathomescreensaverspeed.co.uk/downloads/freeware/regcleaner/regcleaner7.htm
or
RegCleaner v. 4.3 free (540 kb) (same as above, slightly newer release
http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm

RegClean 4.1a, free (use for NT, 95, 98 only!!)
The original Microsoft cleaner but no longer supported by them
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,4666,00.asp

Registry Explorer
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regexplorer.html

RegSeeker freeware (backup, find, tweak, clean...be sure to note the comment about Add/Remove programs) beta 1.35
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm (or)
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html

Utilities:

Disable Microsoft's UnPlugNPlay which leaves port 5000 open
http://grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm

Clean System Directory 1.7 (Use on Windows 95, 98 only!!)
Free cleans up system files. A Dll cleaner.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,4143,00.asp

Kapersky Antivirus personal for Windows
http://www.kaspersky.com

AVDISK is a program which automates the task of getting your anti-virus software on to
floppy disks which you can use to start, scan and disinfect your computer.
http://www.avdisk.org/pages/about.html

Port Explorer, a port enumerator, $30, highlights questionable port activity in red. Allows you to stop processes. Be sure to look up any process in Google before stopping. This program will highlight Norton's ccapp.exe. Be sure to leave this alone.)

http://www.diamondcs.com.au/?hop=brouw039

Script Defender will prevent most scripts used by email virus writers from running
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/sdefend.htm (free, recommended by Tech TV)