I'm looking for a virus program that I can put on a safe, inviolate CD and run in case my computer gets infected, without fear of the virus being able to eat the scanner. Norton's virus program can be run off its installation CD, but that would be using a horribly out of date definition file that wouldn't have a prayer of catching any modern virus.
I see that being run from the command line is listed as a feature of the Pro version, which would hopefully mean that there aren't any registry entries involved in its operation, but it might still stick files in the windows directory or somesuch when installed, which means it wouldn't run if the virus ate them. So, does anyone know if Avast can be run from an isolated location without any registry entries?