Hello friends, today every person uses computer for performing day to day work and here comes the role of anti viruses to protect your system from various infections .Antivirus prevents unwanted access and infection in your system. It’s very usual that people often open files, install cutesy apps and go to the sites where they shouldn’t when they do these things there system gets infected and ultimately results in losing data or financial theft unless they are using right tools.
Sometimes the antivirus tools installed on our system aren’t
sufficient. When that time comes you’ll be glad you have one (or more) tools on
your USB drive to help you out. I’ve found five such tools that could certainly
get you out of a serious pinch. All of these tools are portable.
1. Clam Win Portable
Clam Win Portable is free, open source and performs a great job of
cleaning the disinfectant files from system. It has a very high detection rate
and being open source it is regularly gets updated therefore providing better
security and has an easy to use graphical user interface. The only caution of
using Clam Win is that it does not provide real-time scanner which is not an
issue for portable version. This can be viewed as ready –to-go portable virus
scanning software.
2. Sophos Anti Rootkit Portable
Sophos Anti
Rootkit Portable is best suited for localting rootkits especially for portable app. Sophos scans,
detect and remove rootkits from system.,
it is 100% free and works along with your antivirus I have found Sophos reliable
enough to use even while the PC being
scanned in use.
3. Emsisoft Free Emergency Toolkit
Emsisoft Free Emergency Toolkit
is a powerfull malware tool that can scan for, and remove, over
five million dangers to your PC. With
this toolkit, you not only get the malware scanner, you also get HiJackFree and
BlitzBlank as well. Emsisoft offers the free download, or you can purchase a
pre-compiled USB stick. Emsisoft Free Emergency Toolkit has both a GUI and a
command line version, so you can scan your machine even if there are problems
with the GUI.
4. Vipre Rescue
Vipre Rescue
it is a tool which can be used in case of severe infection. Vipre is run in safe mode and does not depend upon
a GUI tool for use.Just Double click on the executable and a command window opens with the
scanner detecting infectious files on
your system. If you already use the full version of Vipre, you can still run
this tool should your machine become so infected, Vipre will not run.
5. Spybot Search and Destroy Portable
Spy Search and Destroy Portable it is the portable version of highly popular full Spy Search and Destroy. It is good in
detecting and removing malicious softwares all from your flash drive
.Spybot has a unique feature of backing
up your registry before starting the scan in case of removal of any registry
file.
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Author- Deepak Sharma