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In the company's real-world dynamic test, Avira rated ADVANCED. In all of the recent tests by Virus Bulletin, Avira has received VB100 certification.ĪV-Comparatives awarded Avira its highest rating, ADVANCED+, in both a simple on-demand scanning test and a retrospective test that attempts to measure detection of zero-day malware. ICSA Labs certifies Avira's technology for virus detection and cleaning Avira doesn't participate with West Coast Labs. Note, though, that while most of the labs test Avira's technology, they're not testing the Rescue System product itself, so the results aren't directly applicable. Not Directly Lab-Tested My own tests offer real-world hands on experience, but the big independent testing labs perform a broader range of tests than I can manage. Like Panda Cloud Cleaner, Avira Rescue System earns no stars at all in this category.

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However, when a product kills your PC in order to cure it, that's a really poor experience. Under other circumstances, that would have been a five-star installation experience.

Scanning and cleaning a computer with the Rescue System was wonderfully quick and easy.

Perhaps I should have read the very first screen more closely it did say 'repairing a system might lead to data loss or damage.' In the end the agent confirmed that even though Avira Rescue System trashed my test PC, the company wouldn't take responsibility for solving the problem.

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Of course, with no ability to boot into Windows I couldn't install anything.

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The agent suggested I install a trial of one of the products that would get me into the system. The support agent was very polite, but made it clear that only licensed users of Avira products are entitled to tech support. There's a very nice built-in support system that includes a variety of access choices I opted for live chat. I booted back into Avira Rescue System and checked my tech support options. Similar to what happened with Panda Cloud Cleaner, the test system went into an loop, logging on and logging off again endlessly. But where Panda tech support helped me out of this bind, Avira left the test system unusable. Permanent Collateral Damage Despite the product's attempts to avoid damaging important files, the scan rendered one test system unbootable. After noting which malware samples were found and saving the report, I rebooted each system back to normal Windows.

I did need to do a little Linux research to figure out where I'd find access to the computer's actual file system.

Best Hosted Endpoint Protection and Security Softwareįor testing purposes, I saved a copy of the scan report to the actual C: drive.

Is that a sign that Windows computers have gotten more secure and fewer people need antivirus rescue disks? What’s your take on this? Let us know in the comments section below. Unfortunately, security vendors have lost interest in offering such tools, and, in this article, we show the few disks that remain up to date. Among those, we can count popular tools such as Trend Micro’s Rescue Disk, Norton’s Bootable Recovery Tool, AVG’s Rescue CD, Avira’s Rescue System, F-Secure’s Rescue CD, or Panda’s SafeCD.

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And the same thing can be said about other antivirus rescue disks that you can still find on companies’ websites but no longer work for modern computers running Windows 10 or Windows 11. That’s the case with rescue disks such as Bitdefender Rescue CD, which was retired in 2019. However, most of them didn’t continue maintaining such tools. Scanning a computer for malware using Avast Rescue Diskĭownload: Avast Antivirus rescue disks are going extinctĪ decade ago, many companies used to offer antivirus rescue disks. You can either scan all your hard disks for malicious files, or you can choose to scan only some disks or folders.

The good thing is that you can create this rescue disk even from the free version of Avast Antivirus, so you don’t have to buy one of Avast’s paid products.įree antivirus rescue disc: Avast Rescue DiskĪvast Rescue Disk offers a simple graphical user interface that’s easy to use. The only way you can create an Avast Rescue Disk is from within an Avast Security product.

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Avast doesn’t offer a standalone download ISO file for creating an Avast Rescue Disk.

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