A Free, portable Anti-Virus

August 31, 2007

Yesterday I posted a quick little article about Portable Apps, and today I wanted to talk about one of the really handy portable applications that is available.

Have you ever worked on a computer, not yours of course, that you suspect of having been taken over by a pesky virus or today’s most popular spyware? Trust me, I’ve seen my fair share of infected computers.

The one thing I always worry about, because I have seen so many viruses that do it, is that the installed anti-virus has been disabled or corrupted. Worse yet, is finding a machine without any anti-virus! Who knows what filth lurks in those ones and zeroes!

Enter ClamWin Portable. Now you can carry a working anti-virus program with you, either on a flash drive, or a portable hard drive. You can just plug it into the suspected machine, and scan away. No install on the local machine, if you have already installed it on the flash drive.

ClamWin can be updated with the current virus definition files, and it will do everything you would expect from a standalone anti-virus. It doesn’t offer real time protection, but is still a very handy tool to have, especially since it uses less than 20M of disk space.

This is just one of the very neat portable applications that is available from Portable Apps, thanks to Art for pointing their site out.

References:

- ClamWin Portable - Portable Apps

Also on Port 16:

- Bring your Favorite Applications with you - Portable Apps

- How to Manually Download Updated Definitions for Windows Defender

Also on Port 16:

Posted in Utilities, Portable Apps, Anti-Virus