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ESET company has released a new version of Online Antivirus Scanner. It is a free tool, which works in almost all browsers and detects viruses and other threats.

ESET's online scanner is very light and most importantly, easily accessible. If your computer is infected by a virus or a worm, you can visit this website eset.com and then launch the scanner in your browser. It will scan your system and remove detected threats. The latest version can scan archive, compressed and executables files. All suspicious files are placed in quarantine, and the user decides whether to delete the file, keep it in quarantine or restore it. The scanner works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari.

The program uses constantly updated set of signatures and makes use of the advanced heuristics, which is a part of the ThreatSense technology that is based on artificial intelligence. The application is also supported by the anti-stealth technology, which is a part of ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus, which are used for protection against dangerous rootkits. As the ESET says, the online scanner is not an alternative to standard anti-virus program. It is, however, a fully functional tool which you can use in situations when there is no security software installed on your computer.

ESET's online scanner is available at onlinescan