[Scanning android phone as an external drive, with KTS running on my desktop PC?]

I have an older Verizon HTC 525 android phone with only 8 gb total memory and and maybe 2 gb of free space. I need to scan it for a virus or some other malware because I keep getting porn notifications on it. My question is if I can scan the phone as an external drive with the KTS 19.0.0.1088e I am running on my desktop PC without causing any further damage to the phone? Thanks for any help you all can provide.
Thank you, Farnk

 

Here, it may help you. This is from a post I wrote for someone trying to use the desktop anti-virus to scan the cellphone:

“I just faced the same problem connecting the cellphone to Windows, in order to scan with the desktop anti-virus.

After some research on the web, it seems that Android phones aren’t enable to be mapped in the OS as storage volume (like ‘C:’ or ‘F:’) anymore. The protocol used to handle USB communication between the cellphone and the OS changed, so the anti-virus scan can’t run, because it can’t even detect a volume.

Work around: even though the cellphone can’t be mounted like local disk drive, you can deploy a webserver easily installing an App that do this. After that, map the cellphone as a network drive and it will appear in the windows explorer Network hierarchy. So, in Kaspersky you will now be able to find the cellphone in the selective scan listing.

 

I just did a succesfully scan on the mobile device!

Have a good one.”

[when i plug my mobile into my pc it dosent show any option to scan it is there a way to scan mobile phone using my pc’s antivirus]

I just faced the same problem connecting the cellphone to Windows, in order to scan with the desktop anti-virus.

After some research on the web, it seems that Android phones aren’t enable to be mapped in the OS as storage volume (like ‘C:’ or ‘F:’) anymore. The protocol used to handle USB communication between the cellphone and the OS changed, so the anti-virus scan can’t run, because it can’t even detect a volume.

Work around: even though the cellphone can’t be mounted like local disk drive, you can deploy a webserver easily installing an App that do this. After that, map the cellphone as a network drive and it will appear in the windows explorer Network hierarchy. So, in Kaspersky you will now be able to find the cellphone in the selective scan listing.

 

I just did a succesfully scan on the mobile device!

Have a good one.