Free Virus Scanners
| Avast! | Anti-virus program for Windows. The home edition is freeware for noncommercial users. |
| AVG Free edition | Free edition of the AVG anti-virus program for Windows and Linux. Tested and recommended by learnstudents.blogspot.com. |
| Avira Antivir | Free anti-virus software for Windows, Linux, Free BSD and Solaris . Detects and removes more than 50,000 viruses. Free support. |
| BitDefender | Freeware virus scanner for Windows. |
| Clam AV | Freeware, GPL, Linux. Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. |
| ClamWin | Freeware, open-source anti-virus program for Windows. |
| Comodo Anti-Virus | Free anti-virus program for Windows. |
| FProt | Free anti-virus program for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris (personal use only). Evaluation versions for all usage types on Windows and corporate usage on Linux, BSD and Solaris. |
| HandyBits | Free for personal use. Virus 'scanner integrator'. After performing an auto-search for installed virus scanners, it will scan your files using all found installed virus scanners. This can be useful, since some antiviral programs are good for one type of viruses, other programs for other viruses. |
| PC Tools AntiVirus | Free anti-virus program for Windows. |
| ThreatExpert | Can detect viruses and other malware on your PC. Provides a "post-mortem" diagnostic to detect a range of high-profile threats that may be active in different regions of a computer’s memory. |
| ThreatFire | Protects against viruses, worms, trojans and other spyware, designed to be a complement to your current anti-virus software. ThreatFire does not need to know anything about a virus before it can protect you against it. This is because the program looks at the behaviour of an infected program (instead of the contents of the infected file). The basic version is free. Note from the editors: after testing the software we found that it generates a lot of false alarms on legitimate software. Nevertheless we think that this program can be useful provided you know how to interpret these alarms. |
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