I recently found these 2 programs and am wondering what the members here think of them.
Have you heard of them before and are they safe to run off your flash drive? Will either run on a limited account? Or do both require administrator rights to run them on a computer, off your flash drive of course.
The first is a free AV called MxOne. It is claimed to be able to run off a flash drive and is supposed to have a real time scanner for viruses.
http://www.mxone.net/en/
The second program is USB WriteProtector. It claims to prevent anything from writing to your flash drive when you plug it into a computer, so at least in theory it should prevent you from getting a virus or other malware on your flash drive.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-S ... ctor.shtml
Thanks for any help with these 2 programs.
How good are these 2 free programs?
I can not be certain but I believe that your anti write
I can not be certain, but I believe that your anti-write software writes to the registry an entry controlling writing to your drive.
This may have already been rejected, if so Probably because the registry entry can be changed easily by anyone with malicious intent.
I think you may find it here http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... eprotector
A software solution to this problem may not be very useful as an infected system could write to your drive before you could write to it (the infected system).
Additionally would you like it if you could not use a usb drive because someone left a registry entry on your computer?
Please if you need anti-write just get a flash drive with a switch/tab for this as there are a few available, additionally you could just get an SD card reader and engage the anti-write tab on your SD card as an easy way to insure no writes to your drive.
If I am correct, and this app does rely on the registry, to use this app successfully you would have to set up an encrypted partition, and launch this app from it, then use a md5 sum checker on the main drive partition to insure your files have not been modified before you deployed the app, but this might require Admin privileges and sounds like a very awkward solution to a problem hardware can solve so easily.
This may have already been rejected, if so Probably because the registry entry can be changed easily by anyone with malicious intent.
I think you may find it here http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... eprotector
A software solution to this problem may not be very useful as an infected system could write to your drive before you could write to it (the infected system).
Additionally would you like it if you could not use a usb drive because someone left a registry entry on your computer?
Please if you need anti-write just get a flash drive with a switch/tab for this as there are a few available, additionally you could just get an SD card reader and engage the anti-write tab on your SD card as an easy way to insure no writes to your drive.
If I am correct, and this app does rely on the registry, to use this app successfully you would have to set up an encrypted partition, and launch this app from it, then use a md5 sum checker on the main drive partition to insure your files have not been modified before you deployed the app, but this might require Admin privileges and sounds like a very awkward solution to a problem hardware can solve so easily.