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“Dad,” my daughter asked me quite calmly one morning on the way to school, “what did you put on your Android phone last night?”

“Uh,” I stuttered, “I put my antivirus and anti spyware software.” Then, realizing I’d said too much, I pressed on. “You see, sometimes when I’m chatting with folks, they share with me that they have all these windows popping up on their MS Windows installation. They need help, and I’m stuck on a social call having to help them with their infested Windows computer. Now, I can hook up my Android phone either via USB cable or via FTP (as a server or via FTP client).”

Silence.

Now you know why I have to share this here. Below are 3 free Android apps I use to access my Android phone’s SD Card, where I’ve conveniently stored my favorite anti-malware and Windows recovery software.

1. MountUSB – If I have my power cable for my Android (A Motorola Cliq), I can just plug the USB end of it–which detaches from the power plug unit, which is cool–into a USB port, then be given the choice of either Charging the phone or mounting the SD Card. I choose the latter and I can move content on and off of the phone’s SD Card. Works awesomely.
2. FTP Server – If I have access to a wireless Internet connection, I’m able to setup my Android phone as an FTP server that I can connect to using any FTP client, including just plain old Internet Explorer. This allows me to FTP files straight from my phone without the need of a cable.
3. EStrong’s File Manager – This is an awesome app that includes a built-in FTP client you can easily transfer files from your phone to an FTP server. You can setup an FTP server on a computer using the free Filezilla Server (free open source software).

These 3 apps are terrific, and I use them every day when I have my phone.

My favorite recovery tools for anti-malware? I usually rotate these when cleaning out a machine to get maximum cleaning effect.

• Avast Free Home Edition – great antivirus software
• Comodo Antivirus and Firewall – works great
• Malware Bytes
• Spybot Search and Destroy
• Spybot S&D with definitions (it’s great you can download these so you’re not having to download them on an infested machine)
• Firefox and Chrome browser
• RevoUninstaller to really uninstall applications completely
• CCleaner – clean and fix that registry, remove start up junk
• MyDefrag (when it’s all over, you can optimize/defrag the hard drive)

Could I do this with another flash drive? Well yeah. But I could also carry a camera, a video camera, a phone, a pager….ok, I’ll pass and go for one device.

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