How do i scan a Pen Drive.......

Dunkyboy_2

Please could someone tell me how to scan a pen drive.
My daughter has been coming home from school and plugging her pen drive thingy into our new PC, and i am worried/terrified that she may introduce a virus onto our computer, as the school has been having problems. She needs to do work on the PC so i can't just say NO, so is there a way of scanning this thing for virus's before she starts to open files etc.
I have Avira anti-virus, and zone alarm running, can i use these to scan with please.
I have XP sp2.....many thanks....:beer:

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Avira should scan it automatically on access, but you can scan any drive using avira, right click on drive in explorer.

Disabling autorun/autoplay also helps prevent infections

http://windowssecrets.com/2009/03/12/02-Microsoft-flubs-a-way-to-disable-AutoRun-in-XP

Sp2 is out of date, should be sp3 by now.

Dunkyboy_2

Thankyou, i shall try that out.:j

DCFC79

A bit off topic OP but i notice your using xp service pack 2, maybe you should upgrade to sp3