Kaspersky Rescue Disk 18

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Quickly disinfect virus-ridden PCs with this useful boot disc

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Operating Systems:

Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit), Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP

License:

Freeware

Developer:

Kaspersky

Software Cost:

Free

Category

Security

Date Updated:

26 September

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English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, Swedish

Download Size:

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Kaspersky Rescue Disk is a free bootable environment that will detect and remove malware from a badly infected PC.

The system comes as an ISO image. Burn this to a DVD or unpack to a USB stick and you should be able to boot your PC from it. If your system is already infected with malware then this makes it far more likely that you'll be able to remove it successfully, as the malware won't be running and so cannot apply any tricks to hide from the scan, or prevent itself from being deleted.

Of course the problem with this approach is that a DVD or USB stick will always start with the same virus database. Fortunately Kaspersky Rescue Disk will detect and recognise any network connection, so if you're connected to a router then it's able to go online and download the latest virus definitions.

After that the system works much like any other antivirus tool. Click the Objects Scan tab, choose to scan your PC, and Kaspersky Rescue Disk will crawl over your hard drive looking for malware and removing anything it finds.

Please note, if you'd prefer to install Kaspersky Rescue Disk to a USB flash drive, rather than a DVD, then that may possible. Check this Kaspersky support page for the instructions you need.

Verdict:

Every PC owner needs a disk or two like this, just in case their regular antivirus tool is caught out by a brand new threat. Go download it immediately

Specifications

Requirements

Support for file systems FAT32/NTFS/Ext2/Ext3/Ext4/Reiser

Changelog

Of course, there are many good free antivirus packages around, but if somebody was to ask us which commercial antivirus or internet security package we would recommend to people, without a doubt, one of those at the top of the list would be Kaspersky. The detection rates are great and always among the best in A/V comparison tests, it’s loaded with features and doesn’t slow down your computer too much.

Something that has become popular in recent years are antivirus rescue CD’s that you can boot straight to without booting into Windows to help remove the most severe malware infections from your computer. Most of the major players in antivirus software have rescue CD’s available that you can use, the problem being some of the paid ones require you to actually have the full product to be able to download and use it. Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 is different though, because you get all the great malware detection and removal abilities Kaspersky offers, and it’s completely free for anyone to use!

The Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 comes as an ISO image which you can burn to an empty disc and boot up the computer with it. With USB flash drives becoming so common nowadays, and all newer generation motherboards supporting booting from USB (read this post if your BIOS doesn’t support USB booting), it makes sense to write the Kaspersky Rescue Disk onto a USB flash drive. Here’s a selection of ways do it.

First and foremost, you need to download the Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 ISO file to your computer, file size is around MB.

Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10

Then you need a tool to put the Kaspersky ISO onto USB flash drive.

1. Use the Official Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk

Like developers of other antivirus software, Kaspersky has realized many people want to take advantage of USB and install the rescue disk onto flash drive, so have provided their own USB maker tool.

1. Download the Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk Maker. Run www.buddysplantplus.com and click Install to extract the files to a folder of your choice. Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk Maker will automatically run.

2. Insert the USB flash drive into your computer and the program will detect it and the drive should appear in the the USB Medium drop down.

3. Click the Browse button and locate the Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 ISO which you’ve downloaded previously.

4. Click Start and the tool will setup the USB drive with the rescue disk. If your flash drive isn’t already formatted with the FAT or FAT32 file systems, you will be prompted to let the tool format your USB flash drive as NTFS isn’t supported.

Although this tool will work in the majority of cases, if it doesn’t work for you or you’d like to use something different, here are some other tools that will do the job.

2. Install Kaspersky Rescue Disk with Universal USB Installer / YUMI

Universal USB Installer and YUMI both have a trick up their sleeve when it comes to installing the Kaspersky Rescue Disk because they can download the ISO for you. The only real difference between these 2 tools is YUMI allows you to setup a multiboot USB, they look and perform just about the same. The instructions below are for Universal USB Installer.

1. Download Universal USB Installer and then run the program. Alternatively, if you want to setup a multiboot USB, Download YUMI.

2. In Step 1, select Kaspersky Rescue Disk from the drop down menu. If you don’t have the ISO yet you can check the download box and it will automatically open your browser and begin the ISO download.

3. Press the Browse button and locate the ISO file which will then allow you to select the USB flash drive letter under step 3. An option is there to format the drive if it needs it (FAT or FAT32 is required).

4. Then simply Press the Create button and wait.

3. Use UNetbootin to Install the Kaspersky ISO to USB

On the face of it, UNetbootin has a useful function to download the Kaspersky Rescue ISO directly from the website, but unfortunately it doesn’t work at this time so you need to get the file manually.

1. Download UNetbootin and run the program.

2. Insert the USB flash drive and make sure it’s formatted to FAT32 as UNbootin won’t warn you that an NTFS formatted drive won’t boot the rescue disk.

3. Click on the DiskImage button, then press the button to browse for the ISO file.

4. Make sure the Type is set to USB Drive, your USB flash drive letter is selected, then press OK to begin the write. UNbootin creates its own boot menu where you select either text mode or graphic mode but everything works the same.

Editor’s Note: There are plenty of other utilities to get the Kaspersky Rescue Disk onto USB, but these 3 methods are among the quickest and easiest ways to do it. XBoot and SARDU are a few other tools, although do be aware SARDU contains several adware options during install and needs to be setup with great care.

A tool to update the virus definitions of Kaspersky Rescue Disk 18

Kaspersky Rescue Disk 18 Updater is a tool which can be used to update the virus definitions of the Kaspersky Rescue Disk 18 ISO.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk 18 can scan and remove viruses without booting into windows. The main disadvantage of Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 is that it is not updated regularly. Even when it is updated there is no option to update your existing iso with the www.buddysplantplus.com will have to download the entire iso.

So if you don't download the rescue disk regularly, the virus definitions become out of date. Even though the rescue disk has an option to update the virus definitions from the internet, it is not very useful as the updates are saved on the computer that you're trying to clean. You have to download all the updates each and every time you use the rescue disk on every computer.

This tool fixes the above problems by updating your existing Kaspersky Rescue Disk ISO with the latest virus definitions from the Kaspersky Servers. This helps in keeping your recue disk up date without having to download a lot of files. Hence saving a lot of time and bandwidth.

1 . Download the Updater as a zip from www.buddysplantplus.com and extract it to directory of your choice.

2 . Run www.buddysplantplus.com Tool assumes that you already have www.buddysplantplus.com in the same directory, but it will be downloaded if not.

3 . Wait for autopilot to finish

5 . After the update is done you will see two files -> original www.buddysplantplus.com and krd_www.buddysplantplus.com

6 . You can now burn krd_www.buddysplantplus.com to a CD and use it. Or use this guide to write the ISO to a flash drive.

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