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Stand-Alone Antivirus Software?
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that repairs specialty devices that have an embedded Mini-ATX motherboard without a CD-ROM drive and run Windows XP Home. And while the USB flash drives we insert into them have a physical write-protect tab, we still encounter a (rather annoying) display dialog from malware/viruses to remove the write-protect so the malware can infect the flash drive. We don't remove the write-protect, obviously, but would like to offer our customers the option of removing the malware/virus without having to install any software. We would rather not install/uninstall antivirus software even for one-time use, due to various licensing issues, nor do we want to connect to the Internet to use web-based online scanners. Is there any stand-alone anti-virus/anti-malware software for Windows that can be run directly from the write-protected flash drive itself?"
If you had taken even just 15 minutes of your own time with google you would find MANY malware removing apps that can run as standalone or as modules in things like BartPE.
Learn how to use google and stop wasting other peoples time...
So, question: If I use Panda am I supporting Scientology or did they really distance themselves from the CoS after French Media outed them?
Why not just use Linux, and solve the antivirus problem too. Duh.
But hey, to each his own. If they like masochism, I’m not stopping their “fun”. ^^
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