Unless you have a way of write-protecting the thumb drive then portable aps won't help. As soon as you plug the thumb drive it'll likely get infected and take the fun home with you. Cleaning on something like grml is tricky as the virus definitions are out of date. Probably your best bet is to apply the registry hacks to get safe mode speech and boot into safe mode and scan from there. Curious how others deal with this... I usually pull the drive from the box, plug it into a Sata/IDE doc and scan it there. Regards, Kerry. On 8/04/2012 8:13 AM, David Mehler wrote:
Hello,
I need recommendations for portable apps, apps that run from thumb drives, for antimalware work. I've got a Win7 Home Premium 64 bit box that I'm probably going to be paying a visit to either tomorrow or next weekend that has got something on it that I'm not sure what. I've heard various things it started out as a worm, then a virus called win32.blaster, then a rootkit/backdoor, bottomline I'm getting just guesswork from it's owner until I see it, I'm also concerned about two toolbars delio toolbar and something called vtoolbar updater 10.2 which added in a services entry, anyone know of either of these?
I don't trust any AV running on the box, particularly Norton 360, and I don't think that's all there is. Does anyone utilize any good general rootkit/worm/Antivirus that goes from a thumb drive? I'm going to be running this from a drive using NVDA also on the same drive.
Thanks. Dave.
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