DataMike

The tool that I’ve worked with lately is the Kaspersky Rescue Disk. It’s a Linux boot disk ISO that you can download.  (You’ll need an ISO burning program like CDBurnerXP or BurnCDCC , I guess the option to burn ISO’s is built into Win 7 now) It seems to be updated about every six months, so the computer you use it on has to have a network connection. It usually takes about 5 minutes to find current updates , then another 5-10 minutes to download, then you can start the scan.

Kaspersky Rescue CD (Linux Bootable)

The first thing you have to make sure is that you’re scanning the right partition, one time it indicated a recovery partition as the “C:” drive, but you can check that with a simple built-in file manager by clicking on the start button in the lower left.

Another note is before you start scanning, go to the “scan settings” and change the prompt option to “prompt on completion”, otherwise the scan will stop every time it encounters something and will wait for you to respond.

Select "Prompt On Completion"

The only other problem I had was that one time I had a gigabyte motherboard that would go into suspend every 20 minutes or so until the mouse was moved, and that would also suspend the scan, I couldn’t find the bios setting that would apply for that. The scan itself typically takes about 5 hours, so I do it overnight.

This isn’t to be confused with the rescue disk that can be made with the Kaspersky antivirus product. That’s a Bart/PE or UBCD4WIN type disk that is made with a windows XP disk and is created with up-to-date definitions for use as a boot disk. For that, you actually have to own the Kaspersky product.  (This strikes me as a cool product for your bench computer to produce up-to-date boot disks for an on-site trip.)

Kaspersky also offers the “Kaspersky virus removal tool”, which is a stand alone program (run once) you can download and =is= updated daily, but needs to be run under windows