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A free tool that removes the most common viruses & worms from your computer.

avast! Virus Cleaner Overview

avast! Virus Cleaner 1.0.211 was downloaded & scanned by our team, against different types of malwares (like viruses, spyware, trojans, backdoors and others) and found CLEAN.

avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will help you remove selected virus & worm infections from your computer - it doesn't replace antivirus program!

When your computer gets infected by a virus or worm, the virus often schedule itself to be run automatically when you start your operating system; some of them even register themselves to be run when any other application is started.
Removing of it is not as simple as deleting it - after deleting the worm file, your operating system might not be able to start your applications (such as Explorer) any more. In order to properly remove the worm from your computer, it is often necessary to make additional fixes in your system registry, delete the links from your Startup Folder etc.
Here the avast! Virus Cleaner comes - it will find and remove selected worms from your computer, as well as fix the registry and startup ...


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aswclnr.exe
(Size: 0.39 MB)
Publisher Website: ALWIL Software
Category: Antivirus
License: freeware ($0)
Operating Systems: Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003
Filename: aswclnr.exe
Size: 0.39 MB
MD5 Checksum: b8fc967a3d1b3568070b21feef895144
Last Updated: 07 Sep 2009
Screenshot: avast! Virus Cleaner 1.0.211 Screenshot

Full Description: avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will help you remove selected virus & worm infections from your computer - it doesn't replace antivirus program!

When your computer gets infected by a virus or worm, the virus often schedule itself to be run automatically when you start your operating system; some of them even register themselves to be run when any other application is started.
Removing of it is not as simple as deleting it - after deleting the worm file, your operating system might not be able to start your applications (such as Explorer) any more. In order to properly remove the worm from your computer, it is often necessary to make additional fixes in your system registry, delete the links from your Startup Folder etc.
Here the avast! Virus Cleaner comes - it will find and remove selected worms from your computer, as well as fix the registry and startup items to make sure your system will work correctly after the disinfection.
Many worms - when activated - create additional working files on your hard disk. Even though these files alone are harmless, they are useless and they should not be there. When avast! Virus Cleaner detects and removes a known worm from your computer, its working/temporary files are removed as well. The same applies for worm-specific registry entries etc. avast! Virus Cleaner can also deactivate the virus present in memory. There is no need to start the tool from a Safe Mode - just start it and it will take care of the rest!

avast! Virus Cleaner removes the following worm families:
- Badtrans
- Beagle (aka Bagle) (A-L, U, W-AH)
- Blaster (A-I)
- BugBear (A, B-H)
- Ganda
- Klez/Elkern, all variants
- MiMail, (A, C, E, I-N, Q, S-V)
- Mydoom (A,B,D,F-N including the Trojan horse)
- Nachi/Welchia (A-K)
- Netsky (aka Moodown) (A-AB)
- Nimda
- Opas (aka Opasoft, Opaserv)
- Parite (A-C)
- Sasser (A-F)
- Scold
- Sircam
- Sober (A-G)
- Sobig (B-F)
- Swen, incl. UPX var.
- Yaha (aka Lentin) all var.
- Zafi (A-B)

Changelog

Version: 1.0.211 (11 May 2007)
Version: 1.0.207

Why to stay up-to-date?

Most of the time having the latest version of a software is a good thing. Usually software updates add new features, which makes the software more usefull. Also with every update a software becomes more secure and more stable by fixing bugs & vulnerabilities from previous versions.

We offer you 3 options in order to stay up-to-date with your software list:

1. Using Update Notifier (recommended) - AUTOMATIC PROCESS
The Update Notifier is a FREE small utility that scans your computer for installed software and displays a list of updates.

2. Register on the website and use the Watch List Option - MANUAL PROCESS
Signup on the website for free and use Watch List option (a collection of software, made by you, where you can see the current version or download it.

3. By Email - SEMI-AUTOMATIC PROCESS
Complete the following form and we'll send you an email, every time a new version of avast! Virus Cleaner is launched.

How can you help?

Because this is a free service and we intent to keep it free, we need your input. You can:

1. Post a link to this software on your website
2. Report a problem/bug or feature requests, using the contact form

3. Notify us is a new version of avast! Virus Cleaner is released and we don't have it yet on the website.