- Run avast from usb install#
- Run avast from usb update#
- Run avast from usb manual#
- Run avast from usb Pc#
The USB drive will lose the vaccination ONLY if you format it. And your usb will get a autorun.inf file (it's blank, a dummy one), and even if you put it on an infected PC, you might get the virus (hidden exe,bat,scr.etc) BUT your usb will not AUTOMATICALLY infect other pcs, unless you run the exe's on purpose. You will disable your Windows Autorun/Autoplay features. Don't connect to any network (internet or lab) yet
Run avast from usb Pc#
Some really bad malware/rootkits hide in the MBR and survive reboots or even after a "good" clean.īoot your pc into SAFE MODE (if it's Windows) if you can't boot from a cd and repeat previous steps.
Run avast from usb update#
I would choose the sata/ide to usb cable. Prepare ( clean install) a laptop/pc with the AV,antirootkit, antimalware of your choice and put the "infected" hard drive as an external (with a sata-ide to usb cable) or as a slave harddrive. IF you can't get/pay a AV Live cd, do the following. Prepare your OWN from your AV, or contact your AV vendor/reseller. Don't download and run them, unless you make sure they are valid/trusted/original/etc.
Run avast from usb manual#
See this MS article is you like the manual way better. It can be used with ANY antivirus you have.
Run avast from usb install#
The right solution is, as others have suggested, to contact the IT department who administers the lab machines and get them to remove the spyware/malware on their machines and install proper antivirus software on the lab machines. However, understand that this is a crummy stopgap and not to be recommended, because it does nothing to prevent the files on your pendrive getting infected, and because it is still pretty dangerous to carry around an infected pendrive (you are potentially infecting anyone else's machine who you stick the pendrive into and anti-virus is not perfect and may miss some viruses). Good antivirus software will typically scan the entire pendrive when you insert it onto your computer, or when you access files on the pendrive. You can install antivirus software on your own computer, so that if you plug the USB pendrive into your own computer, your own computer won't be infected by the virus on the pendrive. You can't protect the USB pendrive by installing software on it. If the lab's machines are infected, there's not really anything you can do to protect yourself.