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| Thread ID: 146485 | 2018-08-14 05:25:00 | How can I check a USB and an external hard drive? | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 1452707 | 2018-08-14 05:25:00 | Hello Dumb question I know. But a friend wants to put their USB stick and an external drive into my PC How can I scan them both to make sure my PC will remain safe. I have Windows 10 and Malware Bytes Pro |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1452708 | 2018-08-14 05:40:00 | When you plug them in your virus scanner should detect them and pop up asking you if you want to scan them. Well, at least NOD does.. |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1452709 | 2018-08-14 06:13:00 | Looking at the malwarebytes Pro Specs, it doesn't really say if it auto scans plugged in Drives. All it says is: Premium subscriptions will receive the following active protection modules: Malware Protection Web Protection Exploit Protection Ransomware Protection Have a look in the settings to see if there is an option to auto scan USB drives on insertion. if it doesn't all you can do is plug them in, go to this PC, right click the drive - Scan As apsattv posted NOD32 does it automatically. It pops up asking to scan, but even if you say no, it's active protection still does, Which can be a Pain sometimes ;) I have a couple of drives that have password recovery programs from Nirsoft , Nod thinks its a virus ( its not) and unless I disable Nod it "cleans" the infection then I have to get it back out of quarantine. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1452710 | 2018-08-14 06:38:00 | Thanks I could not see an option in Malware Bytes to check the drives on insertion. I was hopping to not to have to take the risk. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1452711 | 2018-08-14 10:17:00 | In Malwarebytes Premium you can do a custom scan pointing to the external drive you want to scan | Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1452712 | 2018-08-14 22:08:00 | Its safe as long as Autorun for USB's is disabled in Win. As long as nothing starts , accesses or runs from that USB when plugged in , its safe. Safe being a relative term :-) Why does your friend want to plug in USB's ? to run a program from it, copy to/from : not 100% safe . And AV doesnt detect everything , allways some risk with USB sticks You never know where that USB stick/drive was last plugged in. Ive seen Printer techs installing drivers off their USB Stick, only to find the their previous job had infected their stick (Nod detected it) . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1452713 | 2018-08-14 23:05:00 | On a side note you can test Malwarebytes to see if its active or not, go to this site: www.eicar.org Download any of the test files, if malwarebytes is really active it will stop them. Basically they are test files to trigger your AV, they act like a virus but no payload. Nod wont even let you download them ( as long as its set correctly) This is what you get if you try: 9006 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1452714 | 2018-08-15 05:11:00 | Thanks Yes it looks like Malware Bytes removed the option to scan drives from within the program. They say you have to go to explorer and then right click and "Scan with Malwarebytes" My friends just wants to copy some files from his portable hard drive to his music player. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1452715 | 2018-08-16 05:54:00 | My friends just wants to copy some files from his portable hard drive to his music player. You know Dotcom? :eek: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1452716 | 2018-08-18 09:40:00 | B.M. ......ROFLMFAO!! :D | kioti (17360) | ||
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