Re: Does some one knows a good virus scanner that is just a scanner?

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<PSiegmann@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:331cdb0d-38e9-4750-9b88-8cf9636815c9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am looking for a good virus scanner that is just that: A scanner.

I don't need a big suite that with an integrated firewall and
background scanning and real time protection and what not. I don't
need all these things since I patch regulary and don't allow every
activeX applet to run and don't download dodgy software.

With that practice I never caught a virus in in the last five years.
(I run every four months a few online virus scanners just to be sure,
and never got an alaram)

I just need a scanner because sometimes I want to try some shareware
and want to scan the installation file first. For that, I have
currently AVG (free edition) installed but that thing comes with all
that annoying real time protection baggage, I turned everything off,
but it stills installs a special background service which needs to be
active, without it, it won't even scan one single file.

So, my current practice is to deactivate this service, until I need to
scan a file, then I reactivate the AVG service, open up AVG, it moans
and groans about all the deactivated background scan- and real time
protection options yawwwnn... and only then I can scan finaly the
file.

So, all I want is just a scanner. with no services that need to run,
no real time protection, no e-mail scanning no nothing. Just a scanner
that I can fire up on will to scan a file sometimes.

Does such a scanner still exists? Or did they die together with DOS?

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