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Microsoft Windows Defender Offline
Offline antivirus scanner from Microsoft.
Sometimes, malicious and other potentially unwanted software, including rootkits, try to install themselves on your PC. This can happen when you connect to the Internet or install some programs from a CD, DVD, or other media. Once on your PC, this software might run immediately, or it might run at unexpected times. Windows Defender Offline can help remove such hard to find malicious and potentially unwanted programs using definitions that recognize threats. Definitions are files that provide an encyclopedia of potential software threats. Because new threats appear daily, it's important to always have the most up-to-date definitions installed in Windows Defender Offline. Armed with definition files, Windows Defender Offline can detect malicious and potentially unwanted software, and then notify you of the risks.
Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller
RootKit Scanner
aswMBR
RootKit Scanner
Avast Antivirus
Antivirus software.
Offers basic free and paid versions.
AVG Antivirus
Free antivirus.
Free antivirus software for Windows and Mac. Offers basic free and paid versions.
AVG Malware Removal Tools
Free malware removal tools available to download. Remove popular viruses and infections from your PC. Get free malware protection.
Instructions of how to use each tool are provided on the download page of the specific tool.
Bitdefender Antivirus
Antivirus software
Offers free and paid versions.
Bitdefender Antivirus Rescue CD
How to create a Bitdefender Rescue CD
Bitdefender Free Tools
Free tools to deal with phishing, malware and crypto attacks
Bitdefender Quickscan
Quick, online AV scan.
Bleeping Computer
Bleeping Computer is a community devoted to providing free original content consisting of computer help and tutorials in such a way that the beginning computer user can understand.
Clam Antivirus
Available in installable and portable versions.
ESET Social Media Scanner
Scan and protect your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Keep your Facebook and Twitter accounts safe from malicious links. Also scans your friends accounts (only what you can see that they have posted to you) and alerts if malicious links or content are found.
F-Secure Online Scanner
Small download that provides an "Online scan".
Junkware Removal Tool
A common tactics among freeware publishers is to offer their products for free, but bundle them with PUPs in order to earn revenue. This tool will help you remove these types of programs.
Junkware Removal Tool is a security utility that searches for and removes common adware, toolbars, and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) from your computer. A common tactics among freeware publishers is to offer their products for free, but bundle them with PUPs in order to earn revenue. This tool will help you remove these types of programs.
Kaspersky Security Scan
FAST AND FREE Security scan for your PC.
List of Bootable Antivirus Rescue CD's for Offline AV Scanning
A rescue CD is an additional tool provided by most antivirus companies to assist in removing difficult-to-remove malware without booting in to Windows.
A rescue CD is an additional tool provided by most antivirus companies to assist in removing difficult-to-remove malware without booting in to Windows. This is especially useful when the computer is so badly infected that Windows couldn’t be booted up, or is crawling really slowly and you can hardly run any diagnostic tools inside Windows to investigate and clean the virus.
LockHunter
LockHunter is a free 64/32 bit tool to delete files blocked by any processes
MalwareBytes Chameleon
Malwarebytes Chameleon technologies gets Malwarebytes Anti-Malware installed and running when blocked by malicious programs.
If you have a situation where malware is fighting back and preventing the installation of malware cleaning software you can try this.
MalwareBytes Tools
Tools to deal with malware.
This collection of tools helps in the fight against malware. There is a large collection of tools here.
PEStudio
PEStudio is a unique tool that performs the static investigation of 32-bit and 64-bit executable.
PEStudio is a unique tool that performs the static investigation of 32-bit and 64-bit executable.
Malicious executable often attempts to hide its malicious behavior and to evade detection. In doing so, it generally presents anomalies and suspicious patterns. The goal of PEStudio is to detect these anomalies, provide Indicators and score the Trust for the executable being analyzed. Since the executable file being analyzed is never started, you can inspect any unknown or malicious executable with no risk.
Scan A File (or Website) For Malware (Virustotal)
Scan A File (or Website) For Malware
Scan a file for malware (Jotti)
Ensure you do not upload important data. Only upload files you are suspicious of.
Spybot Search & Destroy
Protecting your home computer (and business, with appropriate license).
TrendMicro Housecall
Online antivirus scanner.
VirusTotal – Free Online Virus, Malware and URL Scanner
Scan a file or URL for malware.
Windows Defender Offline
Bootable media to scan a computer for malware. Note that this will not work if you have a disk that is full-disk encrypted such as Bitlocker or TrueCrypt.
Sometimes, malicious and other potentially unwanted software, including rootkits, try to install themselves on your PC. This can happen when you connect to the Internet or install some programs from a CD, DVD, or other media. Once on your PC, this software might run immediately, or it might run at unexpected times. Windows Defender Offline can help remove such hard to find malicious and potentially unwanted programs using definitions that recognize threats. Definitions are files that provide an encyclopedia of potential software threats. Because new threats appear daily, it's important to always have the most up-to-date definitions installed in Windows Defender Offline. Armed with definition files, Windows Defender Offline can detect malicious and potentially unwanted software, and then notify you of the risks.
LICENSE NOTE
While many of the products listed here are free it is important to note that the license conditions may not allow the use of some of these products outside of the home.
This means that if you are a business or enterprise then you are violating the license agreement if you install or use them in a business environment. This is true even if you use the product and then uninstall it.
Please take note of any license conditions for each product you look at.