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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: November 12, 2006
- Total Downloads: 930,306
- Downloads last week: 5,777
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A newer version of Avast Virus Cleaner Tool is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 181 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The authors of this tiny, free virus scanner deserve our praise. The list of definitions, although it's confined to about 50 viruses, nevertheless detects the most notorious infections such as Badtrans, Blaster, Bugbear, Ganda, Klez/Elkern, Nimda, Opas, Sircam, Sobig, and Yaha. Avast Virus Cleaner downloads as an executable program, which means you don't have to install it. It scans the memory and the entire hard drive. Although you can't choose specific files or folders to examine, Avast isn't memory-consuming and works quickly. If you haven't already installed a professional virus checker, download this.Publisher's description
From Alwil Software :Avast Virus Cleaner is a free tool that completely removes selected viruses and worms from your computer. It stops viruses that are active in memory, disinfects your files, removes virus registry and start-up items, and even deletes the virus-working files.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.0.209 can handle virus families: Badtrans--Beagle (aka Bagle), (A-Z, AA-AH), Blaster (A-I), BugBear (A-I)--Ganda--Klez/Elkern, all variants--MiMail (A, C, E, I-N, Q, S-V)--Mydoom (variants A, B, D, F-N).
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User reviews of Avast Virus Cleaner Tool 1.0.209
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 181 votes
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17 out of 26 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Virus Cleaner Tool 1.0.209
Pros: Easy to use.Detects what some antivirus miss.
Cons: It only detected known virus in my computer and failed to detect some virus.It's better to get avast home or professional edition.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Virus Cleaner Tool 1.0.209
Pros: everything by still use the realtime in the avast app
Cons: need more better scanning look and threats
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5 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Virus Cleaner Tool 1.0.209
"Great tool for specific virus removal"
Pros: It was clean known viruses in its database
Cons: Doesn't have a near as large database as the Home or Professional edition
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20 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Virus Cleaner Tool 1.0.209
Pros: this is a viruis cleaner, meaning that if u think u have a viruis that your CURRENT antiviruis program is missing, u can run this tool to check for certain baddies, viruises. For a complete full antiviruis program, use avast home edition (completaly free) or use avg. If you go onto avast.com it says this: If you know that your computer has been infected by a known virus/worm (such as MyDoom, Netsky, Beagle etc.) try using our FREE avast! Virus Cleaner.
THIS IS NOT AN ANTIVIRUIS PROGRAM TO PROTECT YOUR PC, ITS A PROGRAM TO SEARCH FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF VIRUISES. kinda like microsofts malcilous software removal tool.
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3 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Virus Cleaner Tool 1.0.209
"Junk, even worm bagle32 allows it, while all other blocks"
Cons: I caught bagle32, "thanks to Avast protection". All anti virus, CCleaner, Spybot and other "useful" software were blocked even in Safe Mode, it was not possible to install anything. I managed to launch Dr. Web Cureit in Repair Mode, it found some trojans and deleted them. Then it was possible to launch ComboFix and it did all the rest.
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