So I really need to keep my flash drives clean just in case. So, I can't go to them and, unwillingly, 'flood' their systems with viruses instead of helping them. Yesterday I have plugged in several of my flash drives on a freshly installed Windows XP system with an up-to-date Avast! Antivirus on it, and the antivisrus has discovered a dizzying number of viruses on my flash drives! While this doesn't affect me, it may affect others, because all of my friends are Windows users and they always call me to help them solve PC-related problems. But now I have become unaware of the possible viruses that can be 'stored' on it. I use a lot of flash drives to store data, and I have used it since my 'Windows times'. So I don't need to scan my Windows partition from Ubuntu neither I can use any Antivirus CD like some people recommend.

Apart from the other users, I don't have a Windows partition on my netbook (yes, I am a newbie but I had the courage to 'forget' about Windows) and I don't have any CD-RW drive on it. I know that maybe it sounds like a duplicate but it isn't because I see that the other questions describe totally different situations than mine.

How to scan usb drive for virus