Copying an anti virus off my computer onto a flash drive?

[Zerokateo]

My sister got a virus on her laptop which is blocking her from total internet access and is keeping her from turning on windows firewall long enough to do so, basically I want to copy MSE off my PC and put it on hers, she has no personal info so we can do a system wipe if needed but I would prefer getting an anti virus to it first.

[JohnFisher89]

You would need to download and save it to the usb,

Try something like hitman Pro 3.5 or combofix if you want to run it off the flash drive

[Zerokateo]

[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;33585741]You would need to download and save it to the usb,

Try something like hitman Pro 3.5 or combofix if you want to run it off the flash drive[/QUOTE]

Well turns out the virus disabled all of her USB ports, Esata and SD card reader so I had to whip out the webroot system eraser, Wiping her whole hard drive now but she will lose all of her pictures since I'm doing the 7 pass erase. Thanks for your help though.

[cdlink14]

A single pass format/erase would be sufficient. I wouldn't recommend using anything more unless you're planning to sell on the hard disk/laptop. But even that wouldn't be required as you've stated in the op that the laptop contains no personal information.

[Zerokateo]

[QUOTE=cdlink14;33586046]A single pass format/erase would be sufficient. I wouldn't recommend using anything more unless you're planning to sell on the hard disk/laptop. But even that wouldn't be required as you've stated in the op that the laptop contains no personal information.[/QUOTE]

Yea just realized how long it will take to do the 7 pass and I'm not waiting 43 hours... Single pass it is, its just a basic everyday worm/trojan so 1 will probably be enough.

[cdlink14]

1 is more than sufficient unless a virus can latch itself onto something (such as a BIOS, which I'd assume is near-impossible these days due to BIOS differences and a lot of them have write/virus protection) then formatting basically takes it out of effect.

[Zerokateo]

[QUOTE=cdlink14;33586304]1 is more than sufficient unless a virus can latch itself onto something (such as a BIOS, which I'd assume is near-impossible these days due to BIOS differences and a lot of them have write/virus protection) then formatting basically takes it out of effect.[/QUOTE]

Yea its a pretty common type of trojan, just the one that spams the hell out of you saying "PAY FOR THIS ANTI VIRUS AND REMOVE IT NOW!" almost half way through the whole 250 gb HDD.