How to Use Portable Anti-Virus Programs to Remove Viruses from smartphones and Tablets

Bootable Anti-Virus Programs are great for dealing with Problems on Computers, especially Rootkit Viruses that just won’t go away as described in my Geezam Blog article entitled “How to remove Rootkit Virus or Hidden Folder Virus using Bootable Rescue Discs”.

From time to time, however, you’ll come across a situation where you are at an Internet Café and you need to scan the Computer without installing an Anti-Virus Program…but you can’t. Not only do Anti-Virus Programs slow down the Computer, but they also take up space on your Computer and can become very possessive of your files.

Also, you may wanna scan a non-Windows Computers, such as a Apple Computer or even an Android Tablet that has a USB Port. Conventional Anti-Virus Installation aren’t useful on these machines and downloading Anti-Virus Apps that are all-controlling on your Tablet or Smartphone may not be the way you wanna go!

For those situations where you cannot reboot the Computer and you need a Portable Anti-Virus solution, I’d like to introduce you to some friends of mine that I’ve recently been testing out on customers wary of Anti-Virus Programs being installed on their Computers.

These five (5) Portable Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware Programs have been tried, tested and been proven as been excellent in their detection capability when it comes to finding Viruses, even outperforming the Free installation crowd:

1.      ClamWin Portable

2.      Emsisoft Free Emergency Toolkit

3.      Sophos Anti Rootkit Portable

4.      Spybot Search and Destroy Portable

5.      Vipre Rescue

Guaranteed to run silently and swiftly in the background from your Thumb Drive! All of them use a GUI (Graphic User Interface) with the exception of Vipre Rescue which scans in Command Line. Swift and Silent, there’s no need to install them on your Computer; they all run from a mounted Hard-Drive or Thumb Drive!

I always pack my Fantastic Five Portable Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware Programs for those situations where I know that I might not be able to boot the Computer from CD/DVD ROM or when I just wanna get in and out quickly. Best of all, what one Program misses the other catches and eradicates!

Not a complete substitute for a Boot Scan, but a lot less hassling and cumbersome to implement. You merely have to remember to just schedule the Anti-Virus Scans on a regular basis. Best of all, it can scan non-Windows Computers, treating them as merely external Hard-Drives and scanning them accordingly.

Pack them in your Computer Repair Kit on your Thumb Drives today!