Online Virus and Spyware Checker

Panda Software has created a site “Infected or Not” which allows you to quickly scan your PC for well-known virus and spyware infections, and also shows an interesting set of statistics of the people who used their software.

According to their counter, currently 15% of the PCs that run their software have some soft of virus or spyware embedded on their machine, with another 20% not running any antivirus software at all.  Without knowing the real numbers, it’s hard to extrapolate this statistic.  One would think that people who had suspicions that their machine was infected would visit the site, so the number may skew a little high, but even then it’s a frightening number.  From their statistics page, 3.78% of PCs that run their software have a Trojan installed on them.  That paints a very bleak picture of how many machines out there could be used as spamming tools.  (Traditionally, compromised home PCs are used by spammers to send out their spam en masse.)

Their software doesn’t work for the Mac, but then Heluna is currently unaware of any active Trojan or spyware installations on the Mac platform.  Did this tool find any virus or spyware infections on your machine?