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    Just to clear up a common misconception.  Many users believe that online virus scans are for some reason inferior to the retail antivirus product.  This opinion could not be more from the truth.  In fact, if you navigate to the ESET online scanner website.  It will state that the online scanner utilizes exactly the same virus scanning technology as the retail product.  In addition, the online scanner can detect and even delete malware.  In fact, 9 of 10 of the online scanners on this website have detection and removal capabilities.  In order to get the same on demand protection, a user would have to individually install 10 different antivirus programs on their computer and spend countless hours doing virus scans.  On the contrary, online scanners only need to install a minimal amount of files and can be run in succession with ease.

    This comes to my point on how to mitigate a virus disaster.  Say a computer has been infected by a virus.  Perhaps the user installed an antivirus program (Microsoft Security Essentials) and deleted the antivirus.  Unfortunately, the user cannot be sure that the computer is virus free because it has already been infected by a virus.  For example, Trojans called Droppers are programmed to automatically download viruses from the internet without the user’s knowledge.  Therefore, an antivirus software may detect the Trojan Dropper but not the potentially hundreds of additional viruses that the Dropper automatically downloaded.  Therefore, many experts argue that the only way to be completely sure that a computer is virus free is to reformat the computer and reinstall the operating system.  However, this process can be very tedious for user as the computer may have many important files.  Therefore, one way to be 99% sure that a computer is completely virus free is to install one of the free antivirus programs from this website and then run 3 or 4 online scans.  Finally, install spyware doctor and KeyScrambler.  If any user follows these instructions, they can be confident that their computer is virus free and will not have to perform an annoying reformat.