Nutrastat Posted October 23, 2019 ID:1341170 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Does Malwarebytes have the ability to scan a USB key (aka pen drive) on insertion. I have a clean laptop, but, my USB Key, so I found out, has 200 Malware on it, that I was not aware of. I only use this from site-to-site and will have picked these up from clients. For the future, I wondered whether a quick scan on insertion was possible? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 23, 2019 ID:1341248 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Greetings, The way the protection in Malwarebytes works is through execution, so if any threat on your thumb drive tried to launch to attempt to infect the system Malwarebytes should detect it and stop it before it is able to infect the system and quarantine it. That said, any drive can be scanned that is attached to the system by right-clicking on the drive letter and selecting Scan with Malwarebytes but Malwarebytes does not currently do so automatically whenever a new drive is attached to a system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutrastat Posted October 23, 2019 Author ID:1341249 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Thank you for you response. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 23, 2019 ID:1341250 Share Posted October 23, 2019 You're very welcome By the way, I will be submitting a request to the Product team to consider adding this feature for a future release, so hopefully we will eventually see an option to enable automatic scanning of external drives in Malwarebytes in the future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutrastat Posted October 23, 2019 Author ID:1341251 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Let me tell you the story... I work at Level 3 server technician, and I am quite fastidious with trying to ensure we have no problems in my company. We have Mimecast, Meraki (advance license with AV & Malware protection) and Trend AV. A company informed me that I was passing Malware. I checked my laptop with Trend, and tried your free program...nothing! Strange, until I thought about my USB Key, with 200 Malware on it, which I only use for clients. It had somehow passed to my key, and why I was asking whether your program supported USB on insertion. If it had, then you would now have another customer. I can scan the USB at any time with Trend AV, BUT, USB on insertion would be a good selling point for you! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 23, 2019 ID:1341254 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Thanks for the additional details, that makes sense. One of those systems you plugged into must have been pretty infected to get all that malware onto the drive. I hope they've since cleaned up their endpoints, assuming they're even aware of the infection. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutrastat Posted October 23, 2019 Author ID:1341256 Share Posted October 23, 2019 We deal with cruise ships, and they are general 'rife' with virus & malware. This is why I am now considering your software in addition to Trend AV. Would both be good? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile360 Posted October 23, 2019 ID:1341268 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Yes, that combination should be fine, however please refer to the information in this support article as well as this support article if applicable to the products you're using. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutrastat Posted October 24, 2019 Author ID:1341311 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Thanks, I have taken a copy of the URLs and will deal with this when I have more time as I am just about to go on holiday. Thanks for your support. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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