Astalavista Security Group have a beta page up that lists top freeware software products in various categories including Data Recovery, Anti Virus-Tools, Firewall and IDS and Anti-Spyware. The list contains some of the freeware tools that I already wrote about but also some new ones that might interest you.
Page loads a little bit slow but its worth the wait. I will check some of the tools out that I did not try out until now and if I find a gem review it here at ghacks.net.
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The first thing that jumps out at me is their “Top 10 Anti Virus-Tools” list. They list the ‘McAfee AVERT Stinger 2.5.8′ as a good stand-alone AV program. In my opinion it’s not much of a scanner. It only looks for a small list of virii instead of the full McAfee definition DB.
If you want a good non-install AV scanner take a look at Trend Micro’s “SysClean” that uses the full Trend Micro DB and it’s free to boot.
You can find the documentation page at:
[http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/search/main/search/solutionDetail.asp?solutionID=25991]
The direct download is at:
[http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/sysclean.com]
and you will need the current Virus Pattern File at:
[http://www.trendmicro.com/download/viruspattern.asp]
(pick the zip file).
That’s a pretty good list. The only thing I would have changed in the Anti-Virus section is the “McAfee AVERT Stinger 2.5.8″ stand alone AV program. It does not scan for all of the virii in the McAfee database only a select few.
A better one would have been Trend Micro’s “SysClean” program that uses the same database file as PC-Cillin and the Cooperate version.
The How To page is located at:
[http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/search/main/search/solutionDetail.asp?solutionID=25991
Click on bullet #2 to download the program and bullet #3 for the latest database file (Virus Pattern File), pick the .zip file.
I use this program nearly daily as I refuse to put any customers computer on our network until it has had a full AV check. I put it on a small 32meg thumbdrive for any computer with USB or burn it to a 50Meg CDR if that doesn’t work.