McAfee Stinger : Is a tool dedicated to detecting and eliminating specific viruses that should not be used as a substitute for a normal antivirus software?.
Is a tool dedicated to detecting and eliminating specific viruses that should not be used as a substitute for a normal antivirus software?. It is very useful for dealing with the usual threats that circle the net viruses worms and their variants. The current version of avert stinger eliminates more than 600 threats including malware and viruses.
from the mcafee avert stinger preferences panel you can activate or deactivate the analysis of processes and boot sectors by selecting the action to perform when a threat is found (inform, repair, rename, and delete). Mcafee avert stinger's list of viruses that can be eliminated includes prominent names like the following w32bagle w32blaster w32bugbear w32. Worm w32sober w32spybot.
McAfee Stinger runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 1 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Gnome.
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