Okay, I’m embarrassed to ask such a basic question but I’m not figuring it out on my own :-(. I need to download Avast to a thumb drive rather than my hard drive. I’m working on my grand daughter’s computer and I believe she has somehow turned Avast off. It appears her computer is riddled with virus’ and other nasties. Her computer won’t allow me to get online so I need a way to get Avast loaded other than a download. Problem I’m having is that every time I try to download it using my computer, it goes directly to my hard drive. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Download the latest version of avast http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html and save it to your HDD, somewhere you can find it again. Or if you still have setupeng.exe (the avast installation file) copy that to your USB drive.
Exercise care after connecting to her system as it isn’t beyond the bounds of possibility that your USB stick could be infected afterwards.
Your daughter may not have turned it off it could have been disabled.
Here are some more tools to download and copy to your USB stick:
If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode and report the findings (it should product a log file).
- SUPERantispyware On-Demand only in free version.
- MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, On-Demand only in free version http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/malwarebytes/mbam-setup.exe, right click on the link and select Save As or Save File (As depending on your browser), save it to a location where you can find it easily later.
Next a tool download and first run on your system before copying to your usb.
3. Flash Drive Disinfector
Download Flash_Disinfector.exe by sUBs from >here< and save it to your desktop.
[*] Double-click Flash_Disinfector.exe to run it and follow any prompts that may appear.[*] The utility may ask you to insert your flash drive and/or other removable drives including your mobile phone. Please do so and allow the utility to clean up those drives as well.[*] Wait until it has finished scanning and then exit the program.[*] Reboot your computer when done.
Note: Flash_Disinfector will create a hidden folder named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive plugged in when you ran it. Don’t delete this folder…it will help protect your drives from future infection.