Boris Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Avira AntiVir Rescue System is a Linux-based application that allows accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore. Thus it is possible to: - repair a damaged system, - rescue data, - scan the system for virus infections. Just double-click on the rescue system package to burn it to a CD/DVD. You can then use this CD/DVD to boot your computer.The Avira AntiVir Rescue System is updated several times a day so that the most recent security updates are always available.http://www.free-av.de/en/tools/12/avira_an...cue_system.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Nice find Boris, I have always used Knoppix or Puppy, but this has the AV scan included.Just trying it out now.Right I have tried it out, and it does what it says on the tin.A few problems that I can see, are you have to mount the hard drive that you want to scan, so you need to know about hda and sda drive naming. (hda is an IDE drive and sda is a SATA drive).And to exit the program you need to click on the miscellaneous heading to select shutdown.If you need to know the Linux drive designations here is the list below./dev/fdo Floppy drive/dev/hda First IDE hard drive/dev/hda1 First IDE hard drive---First primary or extended partition./dev/hda2 First IDE hard drive---Second primary or extended partition/dev/hdb Second IDE hard drive ETC/dev/sda First SCSI/SATA hard drive/dev/sda1 First SCSI/SATA hard drive, first primary or extended partition, also could be a USB data device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted April 6, 2009 Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 DrWeb live Cd is a similar application that I've tried in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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