[fade2green514]

ok so, i just bought a new laptop. i generally used either malwarebytes on my desktop if anything at all and never had to do any maintenance.

the thing is, i want to rig my laptop to be able to scan other peoples hard drives for viruses and malware. so, i was thinking i'd throw a few different programs on there so i can use any of them that i want at any given time, but the real question is, what programs do i need? and what programs do i want?

also looking for suggestions as to how i can power a hard drive aside from just buying an external enclosure and plugging it into the wall if anyone has ideas.

 

[RideZiLightning]

Avira or Avast

Get a hard drive dock

 

[djsi38t]

More than one anti virus program on a pc is not a good idea.

Other than an external enclosure you could use a spare power supply,or some other 12 volt dc power source adapted to a sata or molex power connector.A train set transformer would supply the power needed......choo-choo.

 

[Syrillian]

Trend Micro Housecall is a good 3rd-party scanning utility.

 

[neDav]

First thing you should do once you have on all your program and files is do a full system back-up. When I do use a antivirus, it's normally AVG's free version, but most of the times I don't.