Antivirus that doesn`t need internet?

[Ed from AZ]

A friend has a computer in her apartment with no internet connection.
She was given the computer because it was "having problems". There`s a
basic detect-only AV on the machine - and it shows 83 separate trojans
and viruses!

I use Spyware Terminator and AGV free and I like them. But they both
require an internet connection to download, install, and update.

Is there a good free antivirus program that I can download both
program and definition updates to my computer, then burn to a CD and
transfer onto hers?

Ed

 

[Bruce Hagen]

A friend has a computer in her apartment with no internet connection.
She was given the computer because it was "having problems". There`s a
basic detect-only AV on the machine - and it shows 83 separate trojans
and viruses!

I use Spyware Terminator and AGV free and I like them. But they both
require an internet connection to download, install, and update.

Is there a good free antivirus program that I can download both
program and definition updates to my computer, then burn to a CD and
transfer onto hers?

Ed

She shouldn't need an AV if she is not connected to the internet, but
download the free version of this tool and give it to her. It should clean
it out.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://malwarebytes.org/

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]]

A friend has a computer in her apartment with no internet connection.

She was given the computer because it was "having problems". There`s a
basic detect-only AV on the machine - and it shows 83 separate trojans
and viruses!

I use Spyware Terminator and AGV free and I like them. But they both
require an internet connection to download, install, and update.

Is there a good free antivirus program that I can download both
program and definition updates to my computer, then burn to a CD and
transfer onto hers?

Ed

http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

Look for the VDF section to download definition updates. Nuff said.

- Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Someone I know got an apparently commercial
thumb drive in a manufacturer-sealed package
recently at a silent-auction-for-charity affair.
I said I'd check it out for her, inserted it, and
promply got a red alert from my antivirus. Two
malware items. I carefully extracted it and, with
her approval, dismantled it and destroyed the
recording medium.

The internet is far from the only infection route.

Point taken. I was just thinking writing & solitaire.

 

[Patok]

Someone I know got an apparently commercial
thumb drive in a manufacturer-sealed package
recently at a silent-auction-for-charity affair.
I said I'd check it out for her, inserted it, and
promply got a red alert from my antivirus. Two
malware items. I carefully extracted it and, with
her approval, dismantled it and destroyed the
recording medium.

Huh? Now that's an over-the-top way of fighting viruses - physically
destroying the media they're on! Unless I misunderstand something. Couldn't you
just have formatted the thing and used it?

The internet is far from the only infection route.

Oh, no doubt about that.

 

[mm]

A friend has a computer in her apartment with no internet connection.
She was given the computer because it was "having problems". There`s a
basic detect-only AV on the machine - and it shows 83 separate trojans
and viruses!

I use Spyware Terminator and AGV free and I like them. But they both
require an internet connection to download, install, and update.

Is there a good free antivirus program that I can download both
program and definition updates to my computer, then burn to a CD and
transfer onto hers?

I think PCTools has a rescue boot CD that is updated weekly and then
there is no further update when you use it.

There might also be one other like that. I'd recognize the name if
someone said it was like that.

Ed

She won't get any futher viruses if she doesn't read in files on
floppies, flashdrives, or home-made CDs. I haven't heard of viruses
on commercial CDs.

 

[Cheng Heng]

I suggest download Microsoft's MSE from here:

<http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us>

Please select the correct version for he based on her Operating system
and whether it is 32 bit or 64 bit.

You also need to download the definitions updates from here:

<http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Definitions/ADL.aspx>

Again you need to download the correct version from above link. You
need Microsoft Security Essentials updates - 32 bit or 64 bit

Install both and then run it on the infected system. Sometimes you may
need to run it twice to be absolutely certain that everything has been
taken care of.

hth

 

[mm]

mm wrote:
[....]

I haven't heard of viruses
on commercial CDs.

FYI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal

Dave

It never ends. Thanks.

 

[glee]

For 2 Gby, not worth the effort. The last two drives I
acquired were 32 Gby each.

Formatting a 2GB flash drive is too much effort??!! ROTFL! Now I
*have* heard everything!

 

[mm]

Weren't they connected by wires to something too big to put in your
shirt pocket?

Formatting a 2GB flash drive is too much effort??!! ROTFL! Now I
*have* heard everything!

Yeah, LOL