Archive for the 'Bootable thumb drive' Category

Prevent Online Banking Fraud with a ROBAM

Friday, October 16th, 2009

What’s a ROBAM? you ask. Check out this post: Protecting Your Business from Online Banking Fraud. SANS says, “The number one recommended mitigation [to online banking fraud caused by infostealer infections] is to use a read-only bootable alternative media (ROBAM) as an isolated environment for financial transactions.” You can use a USB thumb drive instead [...]

Make an Anti Virus Bootable USB Thumb Drive

Monday, September 21st, 2009

UPDATE! The BLTDVS Toolkit in its original form as referred to below is now obsolete. The current state of the art has yielded self-contained USB installer tools for most of the popular anti virus rescue CDs. I have updated this article with the latest information and put two versions of popular rescue CD USB installers [...]

How to make a bootable thumb drive virus scanner for NTFS: 2009 update

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

NOTE! The BLTDVS Toolkit in its original form is now obsolete. The current state of the art has yielded self-contained USB installer tools for most of the popular antivirus rescue CDs. I have updated this article: Make an Anti Virus Bootable USB Thumb Drive with the latest information and put two versions of popular rescue [...]

How to make a bootable thumb drive virus scanner for NTFS: 2008 update

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Once again, in May 2009, I have had to revise this article because Avira’s updates no longer work (thanks, Cindy, for your help in pointing out the problem to me). You can find the latest revision here as well. This new revision supercedes all previous articles I have posted on this subject; specifically, these two: [...]