As many of you may know, website/online viruses are increasingly common over the Internet and it won't take much till you have your computer infected if you don't pay attention or you have an older browser that is easily exploitable.
Before starting into online scan let's have an idea about the term computer virus, trojans, worms etc.
A computer virus is a computer program which creates copy of itself and spread all over computer as well as infect a computer without the permission or knowledge of the owner. It can damage useful file as well. Many one use the term virus commonly for malware, adware, and spyware programs but this is wrong. Virus has reproductive ability but malware, adware, and spyware do not have.
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 delete file, modify file, upload file, download file, even install software and do keystroke logging. It can transmit credit card information and other confidential data in the background.
Worm threat causes consuming network bandwidth. Worm itself is replicated and send the copy of itself to another computer over the network. There may some scenarios whenever you see your network, may be even network is horribly slow but and it consumes almost 100% bandwidth which possibly caused by worm.
As these problem became increasingly disturbing, some companies started creating databases with lists of infected sites and popular browsers like Firefox nowdays make use of such lists in order to prevent you from visiting an infected site.
Anyway, though these kind of things are absolutely welcome I couldn't find till now an online, real time virus/malware scanner that will tell me if a site is infected and how I could actually clean it.
So, if you are a website owner and want to online scan your site for viruses then you can have a look at http://tools.geek-tools.org/en/online-scan.
Then if you are unlucky enough to discover that your site is infected then from google you can check out instructions by searching keywords "clean your site" in google.com.
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