Which is the most reliable free antivirus for USB flash drives that resides and runs from the device itself and doesn't need to be installed on the computer?
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Jump to PostI can think of two types of apps that could answer your question.
- Portable versions of an antivirus. These are only used to scan once the OS has booted. I'm going to call these trash since a rootkit can easliy evade this.
- Bootable Antivirus on USB. Now we're talking. …
Jump to Postautorun antivirus is considered to be the most reliable but, it needs to be installed on PC
A non-answer that doesn't even attempt to address the actual question asked by the OP. The actual answer, which does address the question, has already been given by rproffitt...
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what he said :-)
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That was helpful. NOT
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