In my workshop we have numerous USB sticks with numerous programs on them for malware removal and the like.
It occurred to me that if I installed all my programs on a a NAS drive I could use this as a central unit to clean up the PCs instead of using the USB sticks.
I'm thinking along the lines that there will be only one drive to update instead of a dozen or so USBs.
Would this work or am I barking up the wrong tree?
We're an onsite-only business and used to do something similar, originally with CDs and then later with USB sticks. But the amount of work to keep things updated, plus keeping track of which CD/USB contained what got to be WAY too much effort. This is how we're doing things now.
We have a PC in the shop that, among other things, contains the master copy of everything we use: malware tools; install files, ISOs, documentation, wsusoffline updates, CRM data, you name it. This 500GB partition, (currently 80% full) is a shared folder named "OfficeTools" and is accessible to any PC on the office LAN.
Each morning at 4am, a scheduled task invokes Ketarin to download updates to anything we use (e.g. a new version of Flash, ComboFix, AdwCleaner, etc.). On Mondays and Thursdays, a scheduled task invokes wsusoffline to download any new Windows updates.
At 6am each morning, a scheduled task clones the folder to two 1TB portable USB HDs. I put both portable HDs into my bag when I leave for my first service call of the day knowing I have the latest of everything. (When I get back to the shop, I plug-in both HDs and copy anything I've changed back onto the server.)
If I bring a customer PC back to the shop:
1) If I need to isolate the PC, I'll connect it to our "guest" LAN and plug in one of the portable HDs (just like I would at a customer site), or
2) If isolation isn't necessary, I'll connect the PC to our office LAN and access the tools directly
Everybody has different needs, but this works for me.
