You have an outdated antivirus and your computer is suddenly infected by some naughty viruses. The only way to deal with this is to using an online virus scanner to scan and eliminate or threats from your computer. In this post, I write about ESET Online Scanner.
The general trend of most security companies now is to provide free online scanners. ESET – the owner of NOD32 (one of the most effective antivirus software now on the market) has launch their online scanner recently. This service is really friendly and easy to most users from novice to experienced ones. You can use this to scan for threats within a browser, there’s no need to install a antivirus software.
ESET Online Scanner includes ESET’s well known anti-rootkit technology used also in ESET Smart Security and NOD32 Antivirus. Moreover, ESET Online Scanner also uses the same ThreatSense techonology and latest malwares database as ESET Smart Security/NOD32, so that you don’t need to care about the ability of threat detection of this Online Scanner.
When your computer is infected, the best mode to boot in is Safe Mode with Networking. So restart your computer and boot in that Safe Mode. Then open your browser and visit ESET Online Scanner website.
This scanner need ActiveX to be active in order to execute, so the optimum is to run it on Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. Or you can run it on other browsers like Firefox, Opera as well. You have to agree to install ESET Smart Installer, an application, which will install and launch ESET Online Scanner in a new browser window.
And this is a small tip to enhance the scanning process: disable the real-time protection your antivirus software on your computer or turn it off is better. The reason is that they may intercept the scan being performed by the ESET Online Scanner and slow it down.
Using an online scanner is only a temporary solution, the best way to protect your computer is always upgrade your antivirus to latest version as well as update the virus signatures. Update Windows is another thing need to do regularly, it will fix Windows errors that virus or hackers may take advantage of to attack your computer.
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