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Once I was presenting at the potential customer. It was a serious company, very impressive meeting room with good presentation equipment. Of cause, I did not bring my laptop with me. I took my files on my flash drive. The presentation was successful as usual. The customer placed an order and everything could be nice, but… When I plugged my pendrive at work after the presentation, the antivirus got crazy. There were so many viruses, Trojans and worms there. My portable applications that I used to run from the drive were all infected. I lost a lot of time to clean it. Unfortunately the backup file was not quite up-to-date. I could restore my applications, but some data was unrecoverable. I wish I could detect viruses there… I do not blame anyone. I am just asking for your advice.
I know that there is a problem to make antivirus portable. From one side it shall be small footprint, from the other it shall get updates, it shall provide real-time protection. I am looking for one that will work from the flash drive and scan all the activity and prevent copying viruses to my device. Yes, I know, there is ClamWin, a nice and free one, but does not suit my needs.
Do you know any good portable antivirus? Please leave your advice in comments.
Same problem with me…
Tried lots of so-called “antiviruses” for removable media - no satisfaction :(
I think there are simply NO normal solution for real time protection for flash drives. Will be happy if somebody can advice something to try.
UPD: No “Avast! U3 Edition” please :)
Get a drive that has a read-only switch on it, or use a kludge. I have a container that holds an SD card (which has a write protect switch) and then allows to plug as a USB thumb drive.
more reliable than software
Jiminy, thank you for your comment. You are absolutely right. Enabling write protection is a smart thing to do when you do not need to copy info from the host PC. But what if you DO need?
I’ve got it!
ViruSense - a part of CodySafe portable menu.
Recommend!