Destruction Inc. [ Our Finest Selection of Online Security Scanners ]

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http://www.extremetech.com

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One-stop shopping for all the utilities and sites that can help you make your system or network as tight and secure as possible.
A gentle reminder: This list contains powerful hacking and scanning tools. Many of them will trigger security alarms in firewalls and cause backtraces to your machine. You could lose your job or your ISP service for unauthorized probing. Read your Terms of Service agreement.

[ Symantic Security Check ]

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http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/home.asp?

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Symantec Security Check tests your exposure to a wide range of online threats. It's free and efficient, and it helps you determine your Internet security needs.

The Security Scan performs the following tests and offers recommendations based on the results:

Hacker Exposure Check: Checks whether your computer allows unknown or unauthorized Internet communications.
Windows Vulnerability Check: Checks whether basic information about your computer, including your PC's network identity, is exposed to hackers.
Trojan Horse Check: Checks whether your computer is safe from Trojan horses.
Antivirus Product Check: Checks whether you're protected by a commonly-used virus protection product.
Virus Protection Update Check: Checks whether you're safe from the latest viruses. Applicable if you have a virus protection product.

[ Sygate Online Services ]

Url:
http://scan.sygate.com/

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The site provides an option of Quick, Stealth, Trojan, TCP, UDP and ICMP Scans. One of the best around.

[ Audit My PC ]

Url:
http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/prefcan.asp

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They have three Penetration Testing areas:
1) Firewall Test: The firewall test helps determine what programs may be listening on your ports. This is very important and may reveal a virus masquerading as a benign application. Such a virus could give a hacker complete control of your system and security. This Web Security test takes less than 60 seconds.

2) Spyware Removal: This checks your computer for popular spyware and browser vulnerabilities. Before you visit, copy some data to your clipboard and imagine it's something confidential - you may be surprised. The purpose of this test is to demonstrate that improper browser configurations and patch management can make a firewall useless.

3) Popup Blocking: Tests your popup blocker's ad blocking ability.

[ PC Pitstop Quick Program Scan ]

Url:
http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck

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What is all that stuff running on your computer? Who made it, and where did it come from? PC Pitstop's Quick Scan can answer these questions for hundreds of common and not-so-common programs. When you click the Scan Now button below, we'll collect and analyze a list of the programs running on your systems. The result will be a color-coded table that tells you what the program does and whether you should remove it. They will also show you the programs they can't identify.

Internet Explorer required

[ Windows Security Trojan Scanner ]

Url:
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/

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Trojan horses are a huge security threat. A Trojan is a program that enters your computer undetected, giving the attacker who planted the Trojan unrestricted access to the data stored on your computer. Trojans can transmit credit card information and other confidential data in the background. Trojans are often not caught by virus scanning engines, because these are focused on viruses, not Trojans. Catching such threats would require the use of a Trojan scanner (a.k.a Trojan cleaner, Trojan remover, anti-Trojan).

[ Webroot Spy Audit ]

Url:
http://www.webroot.com/

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Spy Audit is:

Safe - won't add, change, or remove files on your computer
Fast - scan your PC in less than a minute
Effective - find out if your PC is infected with spyware

[ PestPatrol Free Spyware Scanner ]

Url:
http://pestpatrol.com

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Our Free Online Spyware Scanner will perform a complete spyware scan and detail any type of spyware that it detects on your PC. It will not alter your files, system applications or remove any spyware. Once the Online Spyware Scanner has detected spyware on your PC use eTrust PestPatrol� Anti-Spyware to remove all know spyware, adware, and keylogging applications.

[ Spyware info - ActiveX Spyware & Adware Scanning ]

Url:
http://www.spywareinfo.com

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This scanner is an ActiveX applet. After a short delay in which your browser downloads the control file, you will receive a "Warning Dialogue" requesting permission for the scanner to run. Click "Yes" and the applet will pop up and scan. You will be alerted if any spyware is found. When a spyware or malware is found, you will be alerted and asked if you want to remove it. If no spyware is found, the scanner will disappear on its own.

[ GFi Email Security Testing Zone ]

Url:
http://www.gfi.com

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Excellent choice of tests that could be run. Your email address is required in order to run these tests.

[ PC Flank ]

Url:
http://www.pcflank.com

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Provides various options which include Quick, Stealth, Browser, Tojan, Advanced Port Scanner and Exploits tests.

[ Security Lab ]

Url:
http://www.finjan.com/SecurityLab/

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The following Test Center consists of a suite of controlled tests to evaluate the security of your PC. It is possible that your system may not be vulnerable to all of the scenarios, however you are likely to find several security holes that affect your system. These tests are safe to run on your PC and will not harm your hardware or software. Finjan tests are digitally signed to ensure authenticity and integrity for Test Center users.

[ Browser Spy ]

Url:
http://gemal.dk/browserspy/

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BrowserSpy can tell you all kinds of detailed information about you and your browser. Stuff like the version of your browser. What kind of things it supports and what it doesn't support. Furthermore it can provide you detailed information about JavaScript, Java, Plug-ins, Components, Bandwidth, Language, Screen, Hardware, IP, Cookies, Web Server, and much more....