USB driven anti-virus protection

[polonus]

Hi forum members,

Remember we discussed this in our forum near the end of the year. Well if an idea is there, it is soon found to materialize.
Read this:
http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivirussoftwarereviews/a/usbantivirus.htm

I use antivrus scanning through a flash drive, do you?

polonus

[CharleyO]

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Nice article about a very good idea.   

And, it seems SanDisk is smarter than Verbatim!       


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[polonus]

Yes CharleyO,

It is a great idea actually. I run F-Prot with the updater from inside the mem key, and DrWebCureIt. Also removal tools downloaded from a clean source can work more when launched from inside the mem key, also Spyaudit, standalone scanning from Flash drives.
I think it is also good for rootkit scanning, but did not try that.
Make one yourself bootable disk drive:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/12/06/boot-windows-xp-off-a-usb-flash-drive/

What also could be a good idea is partition a USB partition as a Linux partiotion and scan from there the Windows environment.

polonus

[..::ReVaN::..]

Yes Polonus that is a good idea and i run F-Prot for DOS from my USB drive too but what i would really like to see is avast! running on that USB drive

BTW what happened to this idea did you try to put Linux on that USB drive or do i really have to take things in my own hands haha : http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=18302.msg156099#msg156099

[polonus]

Well my friend,

I know you finally short circuit anything to everything, and that you will takethings  into your own hands I have no single doubt about that. I know you. I have some ideas about this really, but we will discuss this in the future, you can bet, have to analyze the cd first.

polonus

[Dwarden]

for linux based usb flash it's really easy ...
for windows based usb flash booting with avast! on ... it's possible but quite harder to do ...

[polonus]

Hi Dwarden,

I gave you the link up in the thread to boot XP on an USB of 256M or more, there must be room left for Avast there.

polonus