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How to install Clamwin Antivirus on your portable drive



Clamwin Antivirus is a popular portable antivirus on internet. Portable antivirus is important so that you can scan your files on every PC that does not have antivirus installed. You can put it on your USB flash drive, external hard drive, CD and any portable device that support window files. So how to make the Clamwin Antivirus works on your portable drive?

  1. First download Clamwin Antivirus at here
  2. Now you need to install it in your PC with Windows XP or latest Operating System.
  3. Copy the clamwin folder (unins000.exe and unins000.dat files are not needed) from “c:\program files\” (which is default installation folder) to your portable device.
  4. Copy this ClamWin.conf (right-click to Save) file to "clamwin\bin" folder on the portable drive (note Standalone=1 setting)
  5. Copy the db folder (content database files; main.cvd and daily.cvd) from your database directory on the host PC (default location is "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\.clamwin\") to the "clamwin " folder on the portable drive.

Your files will look like below:

clamwin portable

Now you can run the antivirus from your portable drive.


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