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Anybody use these? I figured I would add one to my collection of LiveUSB flash drives that I carry around for troubleshooting purposes. I came across Kaspersky Live and threw it on a flash drive. I found it interesting how it works, updates within the interface and then scans. I have yet to really put it to the test, but I have heard positive reviews of Kaspersky in the past so I hope and expect it to work beautifully for those heavily infected systems that can't successfully boot.
Likewise, this brings up a few questions. For one, I'm curious what other LiveUSB/CD Anti Virus apps are out there. I'm wondering if there's anything else to consider or if Kaspersky is a home run in itself. Secondly, I'm wondering to what degree these flash drives are safe in regard to spreading other infections. I suppose in order for a virus to run, the operating system has to be online and initiated with its series of processes, which would also include the infection in question. That being said, if I boot to a flash drive like this, what is happening in the background? Is it possible that anything besides the updates are being written to the flash drive?
I've had the unfortunate (or maybe it's fortunate) experience of first hand seeing how infections can spread from one flash drive to a computer to an external hard drive so very easily, so it has me on high alert to make sure if I use this flash drive on one system that when I go to another, I don't infect that one with anything. Overall I was just curious how the read/write process of Kaspersky Live would interact with the system itself.
Likewise, this brings up a few questions. For one, I'm curious what other LiveUSB/CD Anti Virus apps are out there. I'm wondering if there's anything else to consider or if Kaspersky is a home run in itself. Secondly, I'm wondering to what degree these flash drives are safe in regard to spreading other infections. I suppose in order for a virus to run, the operating system has to be online and initiated with its series of processes, which would also include the infection in question. That being said, if I boot to a flash drive like this, what is happening in the background? Is it possible that anything besides the updates are being written to the flash drive?
I've had the unfortunate (or maybe it's fortunate) experience of first hand seeing how infections can spread from one flash drive to a computer to an external hard drive so very easily, so it has me on high alert to make sure if I use this flash drive on one system that when I go to another, I don't infect that one with anything. Overall I was just curious how the read/write process of Kaspersky Live would interact with the system itself.