Antivirus/Recovery Boot Disc/flash drive programs

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lolcano

67 posts

Master Geek

#87139 20-Jul-2011 20:54

I am looking for some suitable bootable antivirus/recovery programs that fellow Geekzoners have had the most success with. Please let me know which programs you prefer

Thanks in advance

Pure honesty with a dash of class

Niel

3267 posts

Uber Geek
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Trusted

#495982 20-Jul-2011 22:07

I like Spybot Search & Destroy. The new Beta seems to work well. They have a recovery CD you can burn which boots a reduced functionality Win7 just for virus and spyware scanning. The protection measures built into Spybot in combination with Firefox (no ActiveX) means you do not have to hog your PC with an "official" anti-virus. If you are disciplined with safe browsing and know where you get your downloads from, you're safe.

You can never have enough Volvos!

dontpanic42

1574 posts

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#496039 21-Jul-2011 00:01

Microsoft Security Sweeper (beta) - http://connect.microsoft.com/systemsweeper

Kaspersky Rescue Disk - http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk

AVG Rescue CD - http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd

Useful bootable USB drive creator application - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

Ramjet007

320 posts

Ultimate Geek
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#496055 21-Jul-2011 06:07

I have used malwarebyte along with MS Security av.

You can download a full working copy (14days). After the 14 days the resident part stops.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

ulrikov

17 posts

Geek

#496727 22-Jul-2011 14:22

I use ESET Nod32, takes a lot less of memory compared to most AVs.

crshbndct

44 posts

Geek

#497019 23-Jul-2011 09:22

for data recovery, if your system is hosed, i recommend one of the boot on flash drive linux distros. get unetbootin to put the iso on a usb flash drive

puppy linux is best i think.

as far as antivirus goes, I havent used windows for about 5 years, so i have no idea.