connecting a laptop for a virus scan

[Gabriel Knight]

Is it good and ok to connect a laptop that has no virus protection to a
desktop that has virus protection by peer to peer and fix the laptop by
using the desktop AV? would I have to make all files on the laptop as shared
for the desktop to scan all files on the laptop? Or would an AV cd scan be
best as in download a virus scaner to a cd that runs from the cd?

This might be OT but thought since this is connecting two pcs together
people would know best in this group.

Thanks GK

 

[Nil]

Is it good and ok to connect a laptop that has no virus protection
to a desktop that has virus protection by peer to peer and fix the
laptop by using the desktop AV? would I have to make all files on
the laptop as shared for the desktop to scan all files on the
laptop? Or would an AV cd scan be best as in download a virus
scaner to a cd that runs from the cd?

It's better than nothing, but the desktop's AV may miss some important
things like rootkits, boot sector viruses, etc. Your second solution
would be a better one.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Is it good and ok to connect a laptop that has no virus protection to a
desktop that has virus protection by peer to peer and fix the laptop by
using the desktop AV? would I have to make all files on the laptop as shared
for the desktop to scan all files on the laptop? Or would an AV cd scan be
best as in download a virus scaner to a cd that runs from the cd?

This might be OT but thought since this is connecting two pcs together
people would know best in this group.

Thanks GK

What I do in such a situation is pull the drive from the suspect
machine and scan it as an external on the machine with the scanner.

 

[Bug Dout]

Or would an AV cd scan be

What I do in such a situation is pull the drive from the suspect
machine and scan it as an external on the machine with the scanner.

This 2nd method the OP proposed is the equivalent, if one assumes the OP
meant *boot* from the anti-virus CD.