McAfee Avert Stinger is a dedicated virus detection and removal tool and should not be used as a replacement for regular antivirus. Dealing with the usual threats (viruses, worms, and variants thereof) that circulate on your network is very useful. Specifically, the current version of McAfee Avert Stinger removes over 600 threats.

From the McAfee Avert Stinger settings panel, you can enable or disable process and boot sector scanning and select actions (report, repair, rename, and delete) to take when a threat is found.

The list of viruses that McAfee Avert Stinger can remove includes famous names such as W32 / Bagle, W32 / Blaster, W32 / Bugbear, W32 / Conficker, W32 / Mydoom, W32 / Netsky, W32 / Sasser.worm, W32 / Sober. is included. W32 / Spybot.