McAfee AVERT Stinger is a very good free anti-virus scanner designed and developed to be proactive in detecting and cleaning root kits, which are running on the computers. When prompted, the user should choose to save the file to a location that is most convenient on his hard disk. Once it has been saved, it then means that the download has been completed. The next stage will be to navigate through to the folder that contains the downloaded Stinger file, and run it. WindowsME/XP/Vista users.

Stinger is only unable to repair virus if the Windows System Restore functionality has a lock on the infected file. What should be done at this point is for the user to disable system restore before scanning commences.

One major plus for McAfee AVERT Stinger that it creates Stinger.opt file that saves the current Stinger configuration whenever it runs. By so doing, when next the user decides to runs the Stinger, the previous configuration is what is used as long as the Stinger.opt file is in the same directory as Stinger.

To get the best of McAfee AVERT Stinger is to set it to Medium sensitivity level because when it is set higher it uses to reports many false positives.

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