Trend Micro HouseCall - Free Online Virus and Spyware Scan

Trend Micro's FREE online virus scanner

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Trend Micro™ HouseCall is an application for checking whether your computer has been infected by viruses, spyware, or other malware. HouseCall performs additional security checks to identify and fix vulnerabilities to prevent reinfection.

If you are concerned about the "April Fool's Day Virus" (also known as the Conficker worm, Downadup or the Kido trojan) Housecall can give you peace of mind by detecting and cleaning all viruses, spyware, trojans or malware on your computer.

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To get fast, real-time proactive defence against viruses, spyware and web threats, we recommend that you purchase Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2009.  You can download a free trial or buy it online or from leading computer retailers. 

Note that for Australian customers, purchases of Trend Micro software are eligible for the 50% government education tax rebate.


System Requirements:

Trend Micro’s HouseCall requires the following minimum system components:
Hardware:
  • 133MHz Intel™ Pentium™ processor or equivalent
  • 256MB of RAM
  • At least 100MB of available disk space
Operating System:
  • Microsoft Windows Vista
  • Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)
  • Linux Distributions that supports libc6
  • Solaris 2.6 and above
Software:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later
  • Mozilla Camino 1.5 or later
Display:
  • Monitor that supports 800 x 600 resolution at 256 colors or higher
Macintosh support requires the following minimum system components:
  • Macintosh Computer with PowerPC G4 or G5 Processor
  • MAC OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
  • 512MB of RAM
  • At least 30MB of available disk space
  • Firefox Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1 and later


Important Notes about HouseCall 6.6
HouseCall 6.6 has two independent Core Engines to choose from:

  1. The ActiveX Core Engine: to use this engine, please adjust here the IE browser’s Security level to Medium at least and be sure that signed ActiveX objects are enabled.
  2. The Java VM Core Engine- to use this engine, please install the Java VM from www.java.com.

 

 

 

Some malware, such as Downadup.KK/Conficker.C may be difficult for HouseCall to remove on some computers.  To clean stubborn infections, try Trend Micro's Damage Cleanup Engine.  Note that this tool will require a greater level of technical expertise than HouseCall to correctly use.

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