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Some virus are very destructive or badly coded until it affects Windows stability. One of the worst thing that could happen is you're unable to boot in to Windows and not even Safe Mode. That makes it harder for tech people to troubleshoot the problem and ended up in reformatting the hard drive to reinstall Windows.

Good news is Kaspersky has started offering Rescue Disk to scan and remove virus on computer without the need of booting in to Windows.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk offers a safe way to remove viruses from a computer without the risk of getting infected. Boot from the Kaspersky Rescue Disk to scan and remove threats from an infected computer without the risk of infecting other files or computers. All you need to do is the download the ISO file, burn the ISO image to a CD, insert it into the infected system's CD-ROM drive, enter the PC’s BIOS, set it to boot from the CD and reboot the computer.

Here's the detailed step-by-step on how to use Kaspersky Rescue Disk.
1. Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk ISO.
2. Burn the ISO with your CD/DVD burning software. If you don't have one, you can use ImgBurn. You can follow the guide on this page on how to burn ISO to a CD using ImgBurn.
3. After finished burning Kaspersky Rescue Disk to CD, insert the CD to your CD/DVD-ROM, and boot up your computer with it.
4. You will get a screen that looks like below. Hit the ENTER key to start booting the Anti-Virus using linux.

5. Once everything is loaded, the latest Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 will load. Simple check the hard drives that you want to scan and click Start scan. Read the rest of this entry »

This blog is from our content partner Raymond
Kaspersky is a famous international information security software vendor. They do offer a few free products such as a web based scanner where you can scan your computer for virus but no removal online, a rescue disk that you can boot in to Linux and scan your hard drive for virus using the latest 2009 engine and AVPTool for you to run an on-demand scanning and removal of virus. As for their commercial product, they have Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 to protect your computer in real-time. They also have enterprise products which I’ve never tested so I can't tell you much about it…

I just stumbled on another free tool offered by Kaspersky called AVZ developed by a Russian named Oleg Zaytsev. It started off as an independent anti-viral toolkit but Oleg went to Kaspersky, so now it is Kaspersky's property. It is said that AVZ malware detection technology is built-in into AVPTool and the latest Kaspersky 2009 but actually AVZ has a lot more extra tools that is not included to the AVPTool and Kaspersky 2009.

AVZ is an anti-viral toolkit for system analysis and recovery. It's main purpose is similar to Trojan Hunter or Ad-Aware which is meant to remove "malwares" but not "viruses".

AVZ enables you to automatically or manually locate and remove spyware and AdWare programs and modules, rootkits and other software tools intended to conceal running processes, files or system data from the operating system, network and e-mail worms, various trojan applications including password stealers, malware downloaders, Trojan-Spies, and Backdoors (tools allowing remote control of a computer), trojan dialers, keyloggers and other means of tracking user's activity. Read the rest of this entry »

As you know, every year by this date, most security software developers anticipate the release of their next year versions. Having in hand most antivirus 2009 I am going to tell you the summarized features and novelties of what I think are the Top Five antivirus in the security software market.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009
This is a security tool of great significance because year after year they have been improving it to be one of the best applications for viruses, worms, spyware, adware, keyloggers and rootkits removal.The basis on which Kaspersky Anti-Virus sets the malware detection are three: updating their virus definitions every hour, malware behavior analysis is performed in two ways: preliminary and on the fly. The kind of protection offered by Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 is carried out in real time, so it is capable of detecting system threats, while browsing the Internet, IM (chat) sessions, e-mailing, and so on.

What's new?
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 features a new method of analysis and has improved the detection of keyloggers and Rootkits.The best is the minimum resources consumption.and it has the lowest average HDD scanning time among many antivirus. Read the rest of this entry »