About Anti-virus and Free of Cost Online Scans.

Though there are plenty of options when it comes to Anti Virus solutions. There are two most popular brands in the antivirus industry viz. McAfee and Symantec. Both commercial softwares require yearly subscriptions. For a regular user of AV it is very difficult to distinguish on quality of Detection abilities of a particular AV.



However there are options to scan you computer free of cost from various online scanners including Trend Micro. Scan your computer without installing an Anti Virus. Here are the lists of free online virus scanner, these online virus scanner may require ActiveX and have dependency on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

1. McAfee Antivirus /McAfee FreeScan


2. PC-Cillin Antivirus


3. Free Symantec Norton Online Antivirus Scanner


4. BitDefender Antivirus Scan


5. F-Secure Online Antivirus Scan


6. eTrust AntivirusPanda ActiveScan


7. Kaspersky Free Online Antivirus Scan


8. Nod32 Antivirus


9. Computer Associate Virus Scanner


10. Free Windows Live OneCare Scan


11. Panda AntiVirus

However, if you want a free antivirus program, you may want to try AVG (the Free Edition). It’s a small in footprint, fast and of course FREE. AVG is runs at significant speed, even on lower end computers.

Pls. note I do not recommend using a computer with no antivirus protection installed and correctly configured to give true protection.