I have a friend who has a PC which I believe is infected with god knows how many instances of malware (viruses, trojans, spyware, etc). I haven't had a chance to work on her PC yet but from her description of what is going on I know that has to be the problem(s). I routinely help out friends, relatives, and neighbors with this kind of thing and am amazed at all the malware I see biting peoples' PCs.
This latest case though has a different wrinkle to it. I will not be working on her PC in her house, and even if I did, I do not think she has a highspeed 'net connection, only dialup, which makes this much more difficult to work with. She will be bringing her PC over to my house to drop it off so that I can spend the time on it here.
One of the things I plan on doing is to take the avast setup_eng.exe from my PC and run it on her's to install it via a USB thumbdrive - but I'd like to know how I can then get the updates over to her PC? Is there a way for me to download those seperately onto my PC then put them on hers? Also how can I "register" the program on her PC to use it for cleaning if it is not connected to the internet, or is that not an issue? She already has Norton anti-vir on her PC and says that she is still within the license for that, so I don't plan on leaving Avast on her PC when I'm done, I just DON'T want to use Norton to scan/clean it for now since I don't trust the norton install that is already there (I will reinstall it later when I am all done if possible - otherwise I will set her up with Avast permanently).
Also if anyone has any hints for how to do the same thing for spyware (spybot, adaware, spyblaster, etc), even winxp updates, how to get the updates manually to my PC then copied over to hers with no 'net connection, that would be appreciated. I may even reverse direction and try to get her PC setup with a 'net connection in my house if that is what it takes though.
I also have a bunch of different anti-rootkit type programs that I will be using but no issues with those getting updates since they are all self-contained/as is.
Hope this question makes sense. Any advice appreciated!