Trend online scanner

What is up with Trend housecall, it has been down for weeks..

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It is possible they are converting to their new type of scanning engine and their online scanning is offline till it is in place.

 

6.5 works fine on my windows 2000 virtual machine (cant test on main machine since it runs vista)


it says version 6.6 is a prerelease
link
doesnt support mac or linux yet.
i get a server unavaliable message if i try to use the 6.6 version.
so if you have got vista you will have to wait until 6.6 comes online. thats if you dont mind using prereleased software.

 

Thanks that worked ok

 

FWIW Bitdefender, F-Secure, and NOD32 have online scanners that detect and remove. Trend has mediocre detection rates, and they pulled out of the VB100 tests since they keep failing.....

 

But Trend is the only one with a Java based scanner (and not ActiveX). Hence I can run it on my Linux Samba server, to check if dumbfool has downloaded malware and stored it in his account.

 

Kaspersky too:

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

 

It only detects but doesn't remove malware.

BTW: Panda detects and removes threats too

 

That's ok, Kasperky has never found anything on my laptop to remove anyway....

But for others who may have become infected, yeah, I get your point, then Kasperksy is useless.

But then again, they can download the free trial version and clean anything that the online scanner found.

Btw, is this the webpage you refer to that is good to use?

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/

 

Yeah.

 

Trend Online Scanner with Java doesn't work on my machine I always get this message when i click next: Please choose directories and files!
Can anyone help me?

Is there any way to deinstall it?

 

Why not use a regular on-demand scanner instead of web-based? I find it a lot easier and faster than online-scanners. Especially Housecall, because I've had lots of trouble running it. I dont know what Trend is doing, because it used to work great in the the old days. In fact they were the first company to launch an online-scanner

I normally use F-Prot on my linux computers (free for personal use). I've also used ClamAV (free software), which is included in many distributions.

 

I have ClamAV but its decent at best. I can't use F-Prot and others, because they are for personal use and not commercial usage.

I use Housecall, strictly as a 2nd/3rd opinion. Thats all

 

Could you post a screenshot ? I am not sure, what is the problem you are facing.

 

Everything ok with ActiveX, but no scan with Java version

 

Close the browser and try again.
This time Housecall will prompt you if you want to use a * different kernel *. Housecall records if a scan was successful, if its not it asks you to load older kernel. Try it, it might work for you.



Also ensure, you are not running any sandboxing software and that when the prompt came for Java VR, you allowed the execution on disk of Housecall.

If it still doesn't work, use the support tab and send them an email. Trend Micro has probably the best support team (among AV companies). I am sure they will get back to you real soon.

 

It works now, thank you for helping me

 

willkommen

 

Kaspersky Online Scanner 7 also doesn't require ActiveX and it works with Firefox!

Time for me to dump Trend Online Scanner with mediocre detection ...

 

Actually I use *nix file servers and Trend Online Java Scanner is the only one that seems to work.

I haven't tried the new Kaspersky scanner.... Thanks