009 - small review of portable antivirus

small review of portable antivirus

http://grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2008/11/portable-anti-virusmalware-security.html

I reviewed some of the portable antivirus apps at the above site.

Trend Micro's Sysclean: easy to use & straight forward ui

Panda Command Line Scanner UI: not reviewed. requires WindowsXP &/or Microsoft .NET installed first. (it looks promising though)

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool: not reviewed. requires WindowsXP &/or Microsoft .NET installed first. (It sounds like Kaspersky is popular amongst users.)

McAfee Command-Line Virus Scanner: This is a fast program. It works very well.

a-squared Emergency USB Stick: Pros: nice ui. simple/intuitive. works on older Windows 98 PC's with adequate RAM. looks for some spyware too. Cons: It sets itself up as a service & this can cause Windows XP to "hang" on shutdown. (to disable this go to RUN-> MSCONFIG or
RUN-> SERVICES.MSC and uncheck the appropriate box).

Clam-Win Portable: simple to use. slower than the McAfee scanner though.

Malbytes Rogue Remover Free: not reviewed. requires WindowsXP &/or Microsoft .NET installed first.

Ikarus T3 CLI scanner: works ok. It seems thorough. no gui though.

Multi Virus Cleaner 2008: for certain viruses only. This works on Windows 98 and has a nice user interface.