SUPERAntiSpyware can be fully portable (not installed and running on demand). Remember that the installed version got services and drivers running and the “portable” is clean, without them.
MBAM can’t be fully portable due to two drivers that must be on Windows drivers folder.
Superantispyware on demand (install, copy files to a non-protected driver, restore back a snapshot of Comodo Time Machine) working like a charm
Although, like MBAM, we have the bad update scheme (non-incremental)
Size isn’t the issue, as it has to have the executable and all the signatures, the same as the installed version. The whole point of the portable edition is that it doesn’t have to be installed, where if a system is infected that may prevent installation.
The whole point for whom?
Not for me. I’ve posted because it’s a way to have SA on demand only as a third opinion, without having to load drivers and services on each boot…
I could never understand why you need to do so for an on demand scanning.
The whole point of having a portable edition, not for whom, those who only want it for occasional use (commonly after some infection, etc.) wouldn’t what to install it.
Using the instructions that you gave the link to would first require SAS to have been installed, to extract the folder, etc. to USB and then remove the registry entries. So it is pretty long a winded way to get it as a portable version, when one is already available.
Thank you very much! My colleagues sometimes ask me “to look what has happened” with their computers. Usually it means that they caught viruses so I always bring my “special” USB disk with DrWEB-CureIt! Since today I will have portable SAS too.
I’d like to clear out only some moments. DrWEB-CureIt! can’t update its databases and must be downloaded from the site. So I must do the same with SAS-portable? Does SAS-portable informs on startup about outdated databases as DrWEB-CureIt! does?
