Bootable antivirus?

[i an not a nerd]

I'm looking for a bootable antivirus that i can boot off of a usb key, i looked at "the ultimate boot cd", but it uses old definitions. Any help would be awesome.

MIkeB

[chrisling]

If you are using Avast anti virus it has the boot time virus scanning.

If you want a bootable anti virus from bootable cd, I recommend Bart's PE with Kaspersky plugin. For additional, BArt's PE also have AVG scanner plugin, Spybot and Search plugin, and McAfee plugin. A usefull tool dude..:)

[PrntRhd]

mjc posted portable applications a while back.
ClamAV is one that fits on thumbdrives.
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=46483

[i an not a nerd]

Thanks guys. I'll have a look at the Bart's PE. I tried clamav, but i couldn't figure out how to get it to be a bootable device...

[mjc]

The problem is that there aren't a whole lot of computers that will boot to a USB device...the number of capable machines is growing, but it still isn't all that common.

The Bart's PE solution is probably the better one. You can add quite a number of useful tools to it, in addition to both AV option...and even end up with network support.

[chrisling]

I have a common question here...Is ClamWin Portable bootable? I didn't see its bootable image files at all...

[jlreich]

No it isn't. It's meant to run from a USB drive.