Anti-Virus Help

  1. 20-04-2007  #1
    Cellaman
    Cellaman is offline Junior Member

    Anti-Virus Help

    Hi Guys,

    I have said i will help a girl at work fix her pc. It sounds like she has installed a virus - she installed some free software - once downloaded it crashed her machine and now it won't boot properly. My plan is try boot from a disk into safe mode and run anti-virus software to check the disk. HOWEVER she doesn't have anti-virus installed on her machine.... Clever i know.

    I have AVG fully up-to-date on my machine and was wondering if i could load AVG onto a disk or flash drive along with all the updates?? That way i could just run AVG from the disk and not have to connect to the net to do the updates?

    Any idea's would be great.

    Cheers

  3. 20-04-2007  #2
    VopThis
    VopThis is offline Senior Member (Canada)
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    I have AVG fully up-to-date on my machine and was wondering if i could load AVG onto a disk or flash drive along with all the updates?? That way i could just run AVG from the disk and not have to connect to the net to do the updates?
    I am not particularly familiar with AVG. Often, the initial install files may be several weeks behind on virus updates. You will need the latest install files and any manual update downloads to run on the affected PC. Be careful not to use any flash drive in any other PC until you have scanned and cleared it for possible acquired nasties.


    I would also suggest that you have an alternate tool in case problems arise. NOD32 ( www.eset.com ) has a 11.6MB antivirus tool download (30 day trial) that is always quite up-to-date. The tool is very less dependent on formal virus definitions and is also very effective against malware in general.
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