avast Virus Cleaner - Remove Worms and Infections

Key Features

• Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will help you remove selected virus & worm infections from your computer.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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!
• Virus Cleaner is currently able to identify and remove the following worm families: - Badtrans [Wrm] - Beagle [Wrm] (aka Bagle) - Blaster [Wrm] - BugBear [Wrm], incl.
• B variant - Ganda - Klez/Elkern, incl.
• H variant - MiMail-A [Wrm], incl.
• variants - Mydoom [Wrm] (including the Trojan horse) - Nimda [Wrm] - Opas [Wrm] (aka Opasoft, Opaserv) - Scold[Wrm] - Sircam [Wrm] - Sober [Wrm] - Sobig [Wrm], incl.
• B, C, D, E and F variants - Swen[Wrm], incl.
• UPX variant - Yaha [Wrm] (aka Lentin) incl.

Technical Specifications

• Publisher: Avast.com
• License: Freeware
• Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
• Category: Security And Privacy / Anti Malware And Antivirus