Has anybody used Avira AntiVir Rescue System

[SpeedyPC]

Build yourself a system rescue disc

Platform: Windows 98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista

Type: freeware

Size: 48.4MB

Avira download link: Date: 30 Apr 2009 - Version : 20090430171721 http://dl1.pro.antivir.de/package/rescue_system/common/en/rescue_system-common-en.iso

Verdict: Ideal tool for salvaging your computer, if your system will not boot due to virus or Trojan attack

Despite implementing the latest anti-spyware or anti-virus tool, you’re only as good as your latest definition update. Should a virus go live and you’re one of the first to receive the bad file, this may result in system chaos - unable to boot in to your machine, access files and more.

The solution is to build yourself a rescue disc that you can use to boot in to your computer, if you experience issues in the future. Of course, you don’t need to have this rescue CD on disc just ‘in case’, you could borrow someone else’s computer, download the latest version and burn this to disc.

Avira AntiVir Rescue CD is such as tool. It’s a self-contained Linux-based operating system with components required to scan, salvage and recover your system and/or individual files. If you can’t boot in to your computer, this is ideal.

Note that the Rescue CD is updated frequently by Avira, so it always contains the latest definition updates.

So has anybody used this as a free tool for someone who cannot get Avast BARTCD.

Your feedback about Avira AntiVir Rescue System would be helpful.

PS: I copy this information from a computer magazine called ATOMIC only in Australia.

[SpeedyPC]

 

[DavidR]

I have never got to the point where it was necessary.

I use hard disk imaging software to back my system, so in the very unlikely event of getting infected I would restore my last weekly hard disk image backup.