When malicious software invades your system, the most invasive ones will ensure that they are malignant. They will do this by editing the registry, installing browser helper objects, hijacking the Internet connection with layer service providers and, sometimes all of the above. Some backdoor software will spawn or create clones of themselves in order to regenerate and become quite difficult to remove. Most Spyware scanners will not be able to baptize the system until these programs shut down and your scanners are not capable of doing this when the malicious software regenerates. Even deleting their entries found in the registry may not help considering that some malware will detect this change and add themselves back into the registry. Therefore, one must reboot into Safe Mode in order to ignore the startup list; however, it is now possible to detect, suppress, and remove these malignant processes without rebooting at all. With the release of Assassin version 1.0, anyone operating a personal computer can recover a hijacked network based Windows operating system within minutes and all without rebooting or changing the system configurations.

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, X)
* Blaster (A-M)
* BugBear (A, B, E)
* Ganda
* Klez/Elkern, all variants
* MiMail, (A, C, E, I-N, Q, S-U)
* Mydoom (A,B,D,F including the Trojan horse)
* Nachi/Welchia (A-G)
* Netsky (aka Moodown) (A-Z)
* Nimda
* Opas (aka Opasoft, Opaserv)
* Scold
* Sircam
* Sober (A-F)
* Sobig (B-F)
* Swen, incl. UPX variant
* Yaha (aka Lentin) all variants

NTFS4DOS Private is the only free for private usage tool that allows unrestricted full read and write access to NTFS volumes. Thereby it is the ideal solution for offline AV scanning, backups or it might be used as an ERD solution.

NTFS4DOS Private is loaded as a simple program like a CD-ROM extension and can coexist with any other tools like TCP/IP network, AV-Scanners or ghosting software.

As a bonus you get an NTFS checkdisk application for DOS as well as a defragmentation utility for any FAT/NTFS volume for DOS.
NTFS4DOS Private is from the same authors then the famous "CIA Commander 2" and "CIA DRiVE.net" recovery tool.

Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found.

This tool will help to remove specific, prevalent malicious software from infected systems. Because computers can appear to function normally when infected, Microsoft advises you to run this tool even if your computer seems to be fine. In addition to using this tool, you should use an up-to-date antivirus product to help protect your computer from other malicious software.

With this free distribution version of the popular AVG Anti-Virus system, you will get a reliable tool for your computer protection against computer viruses.

Features:

* Automatic update functionality
* The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
* The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail
* The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests
* Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
* AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files
* Great customer satisfaction!

Please note that any previous version of AVG Free will be un-installed automatically during the installation of the new AVG Free.

AVG Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use only.