Among the applications that we will no longer need to install in Windows 8 There is Windows Defender, an antivirus protection that according to Microsoft, offers a fairly great effectiveness when it comes to protecting the computer (and operating system) from different types of attacks. If this turns out to be true, then the developers of the various antivirus systems could be in trouble by not selling their respective licenses.
If Windows Defender has become so effective in protecting the operating system (according to Microsoft), then we should only use it, to analyze, review and disinfect any type of threat that has infiltrated; but how can I analyze and disinfect my bootable hard drive? Thanks to the fact that Microsoft has proposed a Windows Defender Offline version, it will no longer be necessary to remove the hard drive from the system to place it as a secondary one on another computer and thus perform this analysis.
What exactly is Windows Defender Offline and what is it for?
Windows Defender Offline is the same antivirus protection system proposed by Microsoft, although it can act as a LiveCD; it means that if we start our computer with a USB pendrive or a CD-ROM disk that inside it has this antivirus protection, it will have the possibility to scan the entire computer without it having started the OS; Next we will mention what are the steps to follow to be able to manufacture a USB pendrive (with the option to create a cd rom) that contains Windows Defender Offline with all its respective definitions.
First of all we must go to the official site that Microsoft proposes to us to download Windows Defender Offline, having to choose the one that corresponds to our equipment and operating system, since there is a version for both 32 bits and 64 bits.
Once the file is downloaded, we must execute it, which will open a window that will suggest that we have active this Internet connection and a storage device (in our case, a USB stick) with at least 250 MB of free space.
Subsequently, the window for accepting the license to use Windows Defender Offline will appear.
Once the terms are accepted, the software will ask us the type of storage unit that we will use, including a blank CD-ROM or a DVD disc, our USB pendrive and even the possibility of using an ISO image (for advanced users ).
In the case that we deserve, we will use the 2nd option, that is to say, a USB pendrive to use it as a boot medium once the process is finished.
A new warning window will appear, which will indicate that the pendrive will be formatted and with it, that the information contained there will be automatically deleted.
The process of downloading and installing each of the Windows Defender Offline files to our USB stick will start, something that will take a little time depending on the type of Internet connection we have.
Once the process is finished another new window will appear, in which we will be indicated the procedure of use that we must carry out, with Windows Defender Offline on our USB pendrive.
All that we have mentioned are the only steps to follow in order to have a USB flash drive with automatic start, and with the files necessary for Windows defender to start in Offline mode with our computer. This is a great help that we could be using and that has come from Microsoft, since if we have been commissioned to review a large number of computers infected with any type of threat, we would only need to use the USB pendrive that we have manufactured under this method, not requiring an Internet connection at all since the computer would be working with low resources, which allows the hard disk not to have the files that correspond to the operating system blocked.
Although we have carried out the procedure with a USB pendrive, we could do the same thing but using a CD-ROM disk or a DVD, a situation that will depend on the type of medium that we have at hand at that moment.
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