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Ten Free Online AV Scanners

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Rodders:
None of the links point to Ransomware of any kind, Simon.

As regards removing malware, some of those applications are designed to analyse individual files only.  Thus, whilst one would have to be incurably bonkers not to delete a file that's been positively identified as a risk, what one actually does with it is largely up to the individual.

Simon:
I wasn't meaning Ransomware, in the malicious sense, Rod.  More as you then described.  Some online scanners are purely that, not removers.  :)

chorleydave:
Hi, Rod.

Never used one.  How long do they take to do a full scan and can you continue to use the PC while they are running?

Cheers.

Dave.

Rodders:
The duration of a scan is contingent upon variables like the capacity of your HDD and degree of fragmentation.  You can usually carry on working during a scan, but the less work your CPU has to do on other operations, the more cycles it can devote to the scan.  A piece of string, really.    :hatoff:

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