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Dex

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Oct 14, 2012, 9:29:27 AM10/14/12
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Since Clamwin have updated their scanner to v0.97.6 I've had nothing but
trouble with it. It will crash the PC if I stop a scan or update while
it is in progress, then cause some major file system errors on the drive.

Are there any other scanners that can be made portable?


philo

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Oct 14, 2012, 11:16:20 AM10/14/12
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http://www.aksgeek.com/2010/12/top-10-free-portable-antivirus.html

Big Steel

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Oct 14, 2012, 12:43:42 PM10/14/12
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What do you mean by portable?

§ñühwö£f

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Oct 14, 2012, 2:39:58 PM10/14/12
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Probably on a Live Cd thats bootable, then scans the target disk.

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Dances with Socks

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Oct 14, 2012, 4:43:58 PM10/14/12
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some are listed here

http://www.pendriveapps.com/software/portable-antispyware-malware/
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Shadow

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Oct 16, 2012, 10:51:41 PM10/16/12
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Kaspersky

Burn it to a USB drive, and boot from it

http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk

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Dex

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Oct 18, 2012, 1:52:27 PM10/18/12
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On 17/10/2012 03:51, Shadow wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:29:27 +0100, Dex <D...@me.com> wrote:
>
>> Since Clamwin have updated their scanner to v0.97.6 I've had nothing but
>> trouble with it. It will crash the PC if I stop a scan or update while
>> it is in progress, then cause some major file system errors on the drive.
>>
>> Are there any other scanners that can be made portable?
>>
>
> Kaspersky
>
> Burn it to a USB drive, and boot from it
>
> http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
>


Was looking for a portable scanner, not rescue disk. One which keeps
itself updated with small incremental updates, not download hundreds of
MB every time it is.

I have a very limited bandwidth usage per month.



RayLopez99

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Oct 18, 2012, 2:30:01 PM10/18/12
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On Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:52:34 PM UTC+3, Dex wrote:
> On 17/10/2012 03:51, Shadow wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:29:27 +0100, Dex <D...@me.com> wrote:
>
> >
>
> >> Since Clamwin have updated their scanner to v0.97.6 I've had nothing but
>
> >> trouble with it. It will crash the PC if I stop a scan or update while
>
> >> it is in progress, then cause some major file system errors on the drive.
>
> >>
>
> >> Are there any other scanners that can be made portable?
>
> >>

This is the latest and greatest 'stand alone' AV scanner: Comodo Cleaning Essentials. Simply awesome, and gets stuff others miss.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/9pzbzme

RL
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