When you find yourself facing a computer infected by all types of malware, Trojan horses and viruses, you may find it hard to take control of the system for cleaning. The solution? Use a CD or USB drive virus recovery.
AVG antivirus known for its free, offers a new free tool for creating such media. The advantage of starting from a CD or USB drive is the system that is present (in Linux) can not be altered itself by any attack, no load Windows.
From there, you will have many opportunities as in-depth analysis and cleaning of your hard drives for viruses and other junk, navigation and backup your files (FAT32 and NTFS) partition and the recovery of startup information erased or lost, or alteration of system files and editing the Windows registry to remove items that block the startup by example.
The recovery CD antivirus AVG Rescue CD is available as an ISO disc image that you can easily burn a CD and as a compressed version that you can install on a USB key. Repair tools are also present on the disk to recover a Windows system functionality.
Put AVG Rescue CD on a CD:
AVG Rescue CD is available as a disk image you can burn a CD with software such as Nero or CDBurnerXP with tools built into Windows 7.
- Download AVG Rescue CD
- Select a folder to save the ISO file in the Downloads folder for example and click Save.
- Once the download is complete, click Open Folder.
- With Windows XP or Vista, follow the explanations of this file ( Manipulate disk images ) to burn the disk image you just downloaded onto a CD.
- With Windows 7, double click the downloaded file. The Engraver Windows disk image opens. Insert a blank CD into your drive and click the Burn button.
- After a few minutes your CD is ready. Write well above what it represents: AVG Rescue CD and put in a safe place until the day you need it.
Put AVG Rescue CD on a USB:
AVG Rescue CD can be put on a USB key that you have to make it bootable so you can start over when you start your computer.
- Download AVG Rescue CD
- Select a folder to save the ISO file in the Downloads folder for example and click Save.
- Once the download is complete, click Open Folder.
- Unzip the archive, so RAR with WinRAR or 7Zip for example.
- Then open the unzipped folder and select all files. Copy them.
- Go to your USB drive and paste the copied files.
- In the file explorer open on the USB drive, double click the file makeboot.bat. Beware, be sure to run the file makeboot.bat from the USB drive, you could hang your system.
- Double check that you are on the USB drive (the letter is indicated, F Reader here) and press a button.
- Your USB drive is now bootable and contains the tools of AVG Rescue CD to clean and repair a computer.
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