PC Mag reviews AV Rescue CD

[2ffat]

PC Magazine has reviewed nine Antivirus Rescue CDs. They also include links for those they reviewed.



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[Glenn9999]

This article is more an identification that these things exist than a review. A typical comparison against a machine with a known number of "pathogens" for each one would have been valuable.

I'm waiting for the white paper entitled "Finding Employment in the Era of Occupational Irrelevancy

 

[BadBigBen]

I agree Glenn9999, that article has only one good thing going for it, namely the links to the said RescueCD's...

and for that, thnx 2ffat...


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[2ffat]

Yeah, I found the links to be the most important part, too, which is why I referenced them in my original post.



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[goombawaho]

I won't say which, but I've tried two of those CDs and was VERY DISAPPOINTED. They did nothing to remove some very common malware.

Better bet is a bootable BartPE with Mcafee command line virus scanner installed.

That usually renders a system bootable again and sort of knocks the malware out enough for a full removal by something like MBAM, SuperAntispyware, GMER, ComboFix, etc.

The other benefit with booting into BartPE is that you can edit the registry remotely, do a manual system restore, run Chkdsk, replace missing/corrupt files, etc.

 

[2ffat]

That's pretty much what Avast's BART disc does but used their software instead of McAfee. I would be interest in know which ones you used and what your results were. This IS the place for open discussion about such.


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[goombawaho]

Avira AntiVir Rescue System & AVG Rescue CD

It's been too long to remember exactly what happened with which one, but I recall saying "I'll never use that again".

 

[2ffat]

Interestingly enough, I had problems with those same two. The problem I had with the AVG Rescue disk is it needed more memory than it said it did. It's supposed to work with 512 MB but when I tested it on a machine with 512 MB it wouldn't boot.

With the Avira, it would detect loads of viruses but not even attempt to clean them. I haven't tried the others, yet.



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[goombawaho]

Did it tell you specifically that it wouldn't boot because of lack of memory.

Also, nobody should have ONLY 512MB RAM these days.

 

[2ffat]

Did it tell you specifically that it wouldn't boot because of lack of memory.

Yes, it is a test PC that I use just for things like this.


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