Scan a hard drive that is in an enclosure

[Templier]

Hi. I have a hard drive that I have removed from a working PC and placed it in a USB external drive enclosure. Is there a way for Spybot to scan this drive? Thanks.

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

There are different ways to search for spies. One would be to search the complete registry and harddisk for suspicious entries and files. That can take a lot of time.

Spybot-S&D takes advantage of the fact that all spies have to anchor themselves at a few places over the system to get active. It starts to search at these places, following the information gathered there to catch the whole spy.

So it is not necessary to make your own scan on every drive. Spybot-S&D usually scans all internal harddisks automatically. But a general recommendation is that you store all incoming files (downloads) in a special folder, and that you set up this folder for a special installer scan. Please have a look at the "Directories" in the "Settings" when you run Spybot - Search & Destroy in "Advanced Mode". There you can add additional harddisks or folders.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[PepiMK]

Make a copy of the desktop icon or startmenu item, edit that, and add /allhives to the command line of the link. Using /allhives makes sure that even the registry of inactive installations gets scanned. I'ld also recommand using the latest 1.5 beta version to do this, as the /allhives-support has been improved a lot since 1.4.