Hello,
Dialogue Science, the company which produces Dr. Web Antivirus, has been around
for many years and the company and its products are well-regarded within the
antivirus industry. The company is headquartered in Russia, which is why they
are probably more familiar to European subscribers than those of us
from America
or Asia. There products have been tested by Virus Bulletin magazine, AV-Test
and AV-Comparatives and were rated decently, from what I recall.
The download location is ftp://ftp.drweb.com/pub/drweb/livecd/
As the blog post below mentions, though, there are several other companies
which provide similar offerings:
AVG - http://www.avg.com/download?prd=arc
Avira - http://www.avira.com/en/support/support_downloads.html
BitDefender - http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/
F-Secure -
http://www.f-secure.com/linux-weblog/2008/11/25/rescuecd-301-released/
Kaspersky - http://dnl-eu10.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/
There is also the multi-vendor Trinity Rescue Kit CD, which contains Linux
versions of five antivirus programs (AVG, BitDefender, Clam, F-Prot, Vexira)
as well as other security tools (data recovery, password reset, et cetera).
I believe that Symantec's Norton 2009 installation CDs are bootable, and
ESET offers a bootable CD maker in its current version, but it requires
that the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) from Microsoft as a
prerequisite, which is a 1.3GB download (yes, GB as in gigabytes).
Other security companies may have downloadable LiveCDs as well, you just have
to check.
In the interest of disclosure, I will mention that I work for one of the
aforementioned companies.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 10:00 AM 5/22/2009, you wrote:
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Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:38:04 -0400
From: "Paul A. Pennington" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Thinkpad] Antivirus Bootable CD
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <[email protected]>
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I've been looking for an antivirus program that includes a bootable CD
to clean up computers that are so far gone that they don't work any longer.
Google found this one:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/11/15/free-drweb-livecd-to-scan-and-remove-virus-without-starting-windows/
It's called Dr.Web LiveCD, but since it comes from Moscow, Russia I'm a
bit suspicious.
Does anyone know if it's safe?
Thanks,
Paul Pennington
Augusta, Georgia
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