Unknown host computers and untrusted machines may carries virus and may compromise your data so you should always use a solid antivirus program on your primary PC. Also, it’s important to update the antivirus’s virus definitions regularly. This way you can ensure that you well protected against the newest bad-warez, viruses and malware out there, and you’ll be able to keep both your USB pendrives and your computers clean while protecting your data.  Like the dreaded AIDS virus and STD, protection is a requisite before fun.  Similarly when using USB pendrives it is easy to be used to spread viruses or malware between computers.  Thus an updated antivirus is requisite for fun especially when using your USB pendrives in public places like your school, university or in an internet cafe else getting screwed is pretty easy.

ClamWin Portable Antivirus is a solid and powerful open source solution that enables you to scan your USB pendrive/flash drive by running a portable application straight and conveniently from your USB pendrive.  ClamWin Portable is also a free antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2008 and 2003.  This portable antivirus is a widely recognized open source antivirus scanner that is based on theClamAV engine, a state of the art open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX that was originally designed especially for e-mail scanning and for usage on mail spools and email gateways.  ClamWin Portable Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.

ClamWin Portable Free Antivirus Features:

• High detection rates for viruses and spyware
• Antivirus Scanning Scheduler
• Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
• Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer
• Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically

Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

So if you’re on the road a lot and like to use your USB pendrives on different computers, you’ll need to take computer security seriously.  Inculcate the habit of scanning both your USB pendrives and your host computer for viruses on a regular basis. As they say prevention is better than cure so do start to protect yourself and your USB pendrives against viruses/malwares/spywares/adwares asap!  So do you use protection for your USB pendrive or what antivirus you use as USB pendrive protection?  Share with us via comments section.  Until then have fun and stay protected.

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