Free Online Virus Scanners For Windows

This article will suggest several websites where you can scan your Windows PC for viruses for FREE, without downloading any software. As you all know, there is a huge variety of virus scanners on the market such as: Norton, Mcafee, AVG, ESET, etc. But if you don’t have the budget or don’t want to install a virus scanner that is constantly monitoring and scanning your file system in the background and eating up memory and CPU cycles, doing a free browser-based scanned is a good alternative. Below is a list of several websites that offer free virus scanning. If you suspect you may have a virus, it may not be a bad idea to try out more than one of these.

Free Online Virus Scanners

• Trend Micro HouseCall
• Panda ActiveScan
• Windows Live OneCare
• VirusTotal (Allows the user to upload a file to be scanned)