My colleague and I carry our personal USB devices for IT support, does anyone
have any suggestions on any good online tools to scan virus for my USB? when
I plug my USB HDD into my computer at home, Norton pops up a warning message
for J:\Drive.exe, will any virus be transfered as you plug your USB device
into any USB port?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric
Actually the best/easiest solution is to use a Flash drive that has a
Write Protect switch on it.
"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My colleague and I carry our personal USB devices for IT support, does
> anyone
> have any suggestions on any good online tools to scan virus for my USB?
> when
> I plug my USB HDD into my computer at home, Norton pops up a warning
> message
> for J:\Drive.exe, will any virus be transfered as you plug your USB device
> into any USB port?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> Eric
Eric brought next idea :
> My colleague and I carry our personal USB devices for IT support, does anyone
> have any suggestions on any good online tools to scan virus for my USB? when
> I plug my USB HDD into my computer at home, Norton pops up a warning message
> for J:\Drive.exe, will any virus be transfered as you plug your USB device
> into any USB port?
"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My colleague and I carry our personal USB devices for IT support, does
> anyone
> have any suggestions on any good online tools to scan virus for my USB?
> when
> I plug my USB HDD into my computer at home, Norton pops up a warning
> message
> for J:\Drive.exe, will any virus be transfered as you plug your USB device
> into any USB port?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> Eric
Okay, you have a virus scanner. It finds a virus. Now what?
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Dave
On Jun 3, 1:06*pm, Eric <E...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> My colleague and I carry our personal USB devices for IT support, does anyone
> have any suggestions on any good online tools to scan virus for my USB? when
> I plug my USB HDD into my computer at home, Norton pops up a warning message
> for J:\Drive.exe, will any virus be transfered as you plug your USB device
> into any USB port?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> Eric
Several online anti-virus scanners only offer a "scan" of your
drives. You would have to pay a fee to access the clean up features.
Also, several viruses, when deployed, will forcibly block a lot of
these online a/v tools.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
Eric wrote:
> My colleague and I carry our personal USB devices for IT support, does
> anyone have any suggestions on any good online tools to scan virus for my
> USB? when I plug my USB HDD into my computer at home, Norton pops up a
> warning message for J:\Drive.exe, will any virus be transfered as you plug
> your USB device into any USB port?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> Eric
> My colleague and I carry our personal USB devices for IT support, does anyone
> have any suggestions on any good online tools to scan virus for my USB? when
> I plug my USB HDD into my computer at home, Norton pops up a warning message
> for J:\Drive.exe, will any virus be transfered as you plug your USB device
> into any USB port?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> Eric
There aren't any 'good' on-line scanners out there!
On-line scanners are the most unsafe and next to useless. Because by the
time you've started your infected Windows and connected to the Internet via
this infected code base, and start to look for scanning sites through
infected DNS, you are almost certain to have the malware perfectly
positioned to overrule your attempts to clean it. What happens if active
malware is found? Don't expect that the on-line scanner will do anything
about it. Most of them are just just marketing tools for selling you their
products. Quite often, malware removal on the NT based OS (Win 2K and XP)
is far from easy. Sometimes a (good) resident AV can deal with it in Safe
Mode.
Other reasons to stay away from on-line scanners are:
1. You have to use IE on very low security setting - ActiveX is required.
2. Many users will lower security in the Internet Zone to use the service
and then forget to set the Internet Zone back to highest possible security
- which is the only way that IE should be set.
3.Scanning should be performed while off-line.
4.Vulnerabilities in several virus scanners http://www.heise-online.co.uk/securi...--/news/112301
Also, according to Trend Micro, a surfer using a search engine such as
Google, with a search string such as, ´free online virus scan by Trend
Micro¡, can end up on a spoofed version of HouseCall by clicking the link
returned by Google. Not surprisingly, the spoofed site informs users their
computers are infected with malware, and then teases them to purchase a
fake anti-virus application in order to remove the fake threat.
Therefore:
'Stand-Alone' Anti-Virus scanning tools are *impressively better and
safer*, because you don't have to be on-line to use them (they have no
dependencies on using a web browser to perform their function), and they
also can be used in Safe Mode.
To scan your computer with the most up-to-date Kaspersky® AVPTool and
Dr.Web CureIT!® virus databases next time you should download new
Kaspersky® AVPTool and Dr.Web CureIt!® packages.
Alternatively:
Click Start==>Run... then type (or copy/paste) "msconfig" (without
quotation marks), click OK. Then click onto BOOT.INI tab and 'check'
/SAFEBOOT then OK and click Restart. To go back to Normal Mode, you must
access the System Configuration utility again and click the General tab
then click/check the radio button 'Normal Startup'- load all device drivers
and services'.
NOTE:
Registration is required in any of the above mentioned fora before posting
a HJT log and read the 'stickies' (instructions/guidelines) for the
respective HJT forum.
Any good online tools to scan virus? 
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