Best Free Trojan Scanner/Trojan Remover
For those of you who are average PC users who don't use an anti-trojan scanner, I recommend that you download a2 (a-squared) and scan your PCs weekly. I suspect that you may be surprised at what you'll find. a2 is also pretty good at removing some spyware infections, so bear that in mind the next time you encounter a spyware product that you can't remove with normal anti-spyware products like Ad-Aware.
a2 (a-squared)
Website:
www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
Author: Emsisoft
Date: 08/29/2008
Version: 3.5.0.0
Download File size: 28.9MB
License: Freeware
Operating systems supported: Windows 98 - Vista 32bit
64 Bit Capable: no
Portable version available: no
Other languages supported: yes
Additional Software Required: None
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avast anti virus has a memory scanner at the start of it. A-squared was totally ineffective for me on XP home. Plus as mentioned it did some damage that was hard to fix and is heavy on resources plus slow.
AVG Anti-spyware may find some trojans for you but is also slow and heavy on resources
I need help guys, I have a trojan Horse virus on my computer located in the C-Drive...
I have ran my programs that I always Run Nortin & Spybot and it is unable to remove the virus or move it into the quarantine.
I have been online and looking for a free removal tool for this trojan horse and once the scan identifies the problem when I go to fix the problem they want to charge me money.
What is a good FREE trojan horse program roval?
You can grab McAfee's Stinger..
http://vil.nai.com/VIL/stinger/
Thanks,
Kent
the best that i know off:
http://www.swatit.org/
http://hacker-eliminator.com/
kaspersky and trustport aec find a lots of trojans
SUPERAntySpyware is the best. With ESET installed i have found more than a hundred of worms and trojans/adware. I think TrojianHunter is no more FREE!
Giovanni
great site,
I thought I'd try this a squared to see if it picks up anything that my Kaspersky has missed. Interestingly, Kaspersky identified this part of the download:
Infected: Trojan program Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.vmp C:\PROGRAM FILES\A-SQUARED FREE\unins000.exe 672.1 KB
as a trojan ? So where does that leave me?
Hi,
You may want to adjust the sensitivity of your AV product or simply tell it to ignore the false positive you seem to be getting.
Hi
You can check whether it's malware or not by uploading it to VirusTotal, Jotti or VirusChief.
not exactly an expert here, but i found something rather ironic. decided to try a2 anyway off of good remarks for some things. picked up a file it considered high risk. Trojan-Downloder.Win32. Agent.vfx. the file that was infected? unins000.exe in a2's own folder. 0o
Hi
I tried rising anti virus and rising firewall together just to test them with matousec security software testing suit(SSTS) what I found, is rising firewall is not that effective and rising anti virus as well... rising anti virus found some viruses ( around 12 ) but it could not prevent the installation... I am not impressed with this new antivirus.. then I installed avira and scanned my system. avira found another 13 viruses and all belongs to that security suit.. then I scanned my computer with super anti spyware and MBMA but neither found any virus or malware, may be because I cleaned my computer with CCleaner before that... but my system was still infected... then I remembered another option "a-squard" a squard found another 6 infections and solved my problem... so in short rising missed around 19 infections though it found 12.. that means it's not that effective... avira found most of the rest... sign of number 1 anti virus.. and a-squard found the rest that means a-squard is also one of the essential part of security... impressed with avira and a-squard...
Nice to hear your positive comments about A2. When I opened this months issue of Government Security News, Emsisoft was listed as an U.S. based advertised contractor. Nice!!
Hi
In the BF AntiSpyware page, Steve tested A2 and it got a very low score.
Hi
actually one test may not be the every thing and may not give the accurate result... a squared should be included in subsequent tests...
Hi
Yes, but currently that is the only current test I've seen for anti-malware apps, and I'm quite certain it's legitimate. I realise it might not be 100% but it's the closest there is. Anyway, SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware can also detect trojans so why not use those?
And I don't think Steve said it will not be included.
Actually www.2-spyware.com tested A-Squared too and it got very low score so it´s probably not as superb as the vendor advertises (not saying that other antispywares mean 100% safety, but this definitely doesn´t).
I seem to remember that Gizmo's testing of BOClean gave rather disappointing results.
Hi
Well it is still an option and one test isn't everything.
For whatever reason, merely installing the A2Free product a year ago seriously hosed a Win98SE system of ours that had been stable for years before that. YMMV, of course, but for our Win98 systems we now either use one of the several good on-line on-demand scanners or multi-boot with Win2K and use its on-demand scanner to check the Win98 environment.
- bill
You definitely need to consider
Comodo Boclean.
Hi
I agree. I think it is one of the very few signature programs with a memory scanner.
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