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Rescue CD

A powerful must-have toolset for the rescue & repair of infected machines that provides all essential utilities for system administrators and individual IT professionals.

Key technologies

  • Anti-Virus: protection against viruses, worms and trojans
  • Anti-Spyware: protection against spyware, adware and identity-theft
  • Administration toolset: designed to assist in the system recovery process

More details

The AVG Rescue CD is basically a portable variant of AVG Anti-Virus based on the Windows PE platform. It is distributed as a bootable CD intended for operating system recovery in such an event where the system cannot be loaded in the regular way – for example due to substantial virus infection, enabling you to fully scan and heal infections on your inoperable computer. There are multiple update options - local AVG installation, hard drive, directly through Internet-enabled LAN, or an external source (flash drive etc.)

Comprehensive administration toolset

  • AVG Command Line utility providing full command line access.
  • AVG Registry Editor tool for system registry processing.
  • AVG IP Config tool for managing network settings.
  • AVG Ping utility for testing the availability of network resources (servers, domains, IP addresses).
  • AVG Scan Disk tool for analyzing and testing hard disk integrity with optional automatic error correction.
  • AVG Notepad utility for saving notes, editing system files etc.
  • Map network drive utility to quickly and easily map a network drive.

The best Windows protection  trusted by millions of users. AVG's award-winning antivirus technology protects millions of users and is certified by major antivirus testing organizations (VB100%, ICSA, West Coast Labs Checkmark).