Protect Your Portable Device with an Antivirus Software

By Luqmaan

Portability is easier than ever today with hard drive prices plummeting dramatically, thus maintaining several portable backups of files and sharing them among peers is common practice, the widespread use of portability has also led to several infected computers and portable drives.

Today, if you take virtually any portable drive and perform a full scan with an updated antivirus, it would probably reveal a boatload of viruses in the device. This can be limited by using antivirus solutions tailor made for portable devices.

Clamwin Portable

Clamwin portable is available from popular portable apps and provides sufficient protection to prevent infection of your portable device. It does require you to manually scan your drives at frequent intervals as it has no automatic mechanism to prevent viruses from infecting your drive. While this is far from convenient and its PC version sucks compared to the market leaders, it is a reasonable solution to keep your portable drives clean.

Avast! Portable

Avast is a better known antivirus and is used extensively as a primary antivirus program in several systems, detection rate is comparatively low and it is known to hog CPU resources, the portable version of Avast! is also available and while not official, it is a sufficient solution to reduce the vulnerability of your portable drives.

There are quite a few other portable solutions like Trustport Antivirus among other unpopular brands, the above two applications do a reasonable job and IMO sufficient to keep your portable drives safe.

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5 Comments so far

Mitch December 31, 2009 3:23 am

Thanks for mentioning Pendriveapps.com I didn’t realize this awesome resource existed until you wrote this post.

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SRChiP reply on January 9th, 2010 7:49 pm:
You should try http://portableapps.com it contains a neat collection of portable applications.

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Luqmaan reply on January 19th, 2010 7:05 pm:
Thanks for the tip!

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