ILikePandabears Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 So I've been sitting and toying around with different encryption tools for my usb drive and i was wondering if there is any antivirus/firewall that can contain different virusfiles on a specific folder on the drive without it spreading ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int0x80 Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 any antivirus/firewall that can contain different virusfiles on a specific folder on the drive without it spreading ? Yes, provided the AV can recognize the malware as such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILikePandabears Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 Yes, provided the AV can recognize the malware as such. Do you have any recommended AV, I tried a few free AV's but they had some trouble with either not stopping the files or just flat out removing them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 (edited) What is it you are trying to do, move them via USB drive? Throw the non-running program in a 7-ZIP or RAR file, password protect it and copy wherever you need to. Then no one can accidentally run it without knowing the password to get it out of the archive file. Safe transport and shouldn't be an issue for AV since scanning would require decompression and the password put in to copy out to temp file. Unless I misunderstood the question... Edited March 13, 2012 by digip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 (edited) So I've been sitting and toying around with different encryption tools for my usb drive and i was wondering if there is any antivirus/firewall that can contain different virusfiles on a specific folder on the drive without it spreading ? Yes it is possible, most antivirus have what's called a virus chest where it contains any virus/worm it detects so it can't re-infect the system. You could try moving/extracting it to a folder, where you could later compress or encrypt it. I would recommend Avast, in addition it could prove challenging to move/extract the virus from the chest as it could trigger the AV filters and render your efforts useless. Edited March 14, 2012 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILikePandabears Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 @digip I've recently started getting into programming and felt like it would be fun to safely study virus code as well as constructing some minor harmless ones myself and i needed a fully secure USB drive to transport it between locations. @Infiltrator Thanks avast was perfect and easy to use, i created a virus chest on the usb and the encryption programs i was trying to use apparently didnt work on drives but it worked wonders on the virus chest so problem solved, thank for the help everyone ! //ILikePandabears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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