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31-Jan-2009, 11:43 PM #1
Solved: Can you download a rescue disk (virus) :(
Computer has a virus and is virtually locked up. I need a rescue disk so I bought Defender 2009 and of course the rescue disk procedure is so complicated I'm stuck . So I'm back to square one and out $20. Any help is appreciated.
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01-Feb-2009, 12:55 AM #2
You may want to look into the AVAST BART CD.

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_bart_cd.html

If you PC is screwed up that bad I'd consider formatting the drive and reinstalling the operating system. You should be able to easily recover your important files by installing the drive into another PC as a "slave drive" prior to performing a clean install.

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01-Feb-2009, 01:04 AM #3
Is this the Defender 2009 that you said you bought::

http://www.precisesecurity.com/blogs...defender-2009/
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01-Feb-2009, 03:38 AM #4
Saw this recently:


DiskInternals Linux Recovery is a handy no-cost utility that runs under any version of Windows and designed to recover the erased or damaged information that is kept on Ext2/Ext3 partitions.
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