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Creating Bootable Kaspersky Rescue USB Disk

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 06:21.

Virus's can get real nasty and make your Operating System unbootable, in such cases the user is left with only two choices either to format and re-install the operating system or to use a bootable anti-virus cleaner for removing the virus infection, obviously the second option is the preferred one, almost all major anti-virus companies provide bootable rescue disk's for removal of such stubborn virus infections, Kaspersky Rescue Disk is one of the best bootable anti-virus rescue disk out there with an fully functional option to download latest anti-virus definitions updates from internet, the free rescue disk GUI is similar to Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 allowing users to remove virus's and malware's via a familiar interface without booting into Windows.

If you don't have CD/DVD booting functionality or would prefer USB disk as the bootable medium, here is a simple step-by-step guide for creating bootable Kaspersky Rescue USB Disk:

I tried several USB bootable disk creation procedure's but none worked, finally after quite some research I was able to figure out this working method.

Download Kaspersky Bootable Rescue Disk ISO image from the official FTP site here.
Download the Gentoo Linux Bootable USB Maker.
Extract Kaspersky-Bootable-Rescue-Disk.zip downloaded above, and Copy kav_rescue_2008.iso downloaded in step 1 to to the newly extracted GentooUSB folder as shown below.
Double-click and launch fixgt2.bat and enter the USB drive-letter to format and create bootable disk, pay attention here as entering wrong drive letter will result in OS or Data partition getting wiped out.

Follow the on-screen instructions and your bootable Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk will be ready in minutes.

To use the bootable USB disk, simply plugin the USB disk and choose USB as the first boot option from system BIOS or use F8 key during BIOS screen for booting options if your motherboard supports it.

38098 reads

Works fine..

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 04:42.

Thanks, nice tip.

hi pl guide me how to update

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 11:55.

hi
pl guide me how to update virus database in usb disk

amit1146@gmail.com

Kaspersky USB Update

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 08:42.

You can use the offline updater tricks discussed below :

http://www.megaleecher.net/search/node/kaspersky+offline

Kaspersky USB Update

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 12:40.

I tried to update using the tricks but it didn't work.
Anyone knows how to update the usb database?
Thanks

What about CD

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 11:46.

What if I need to boot from a CD and not a USB device.
not all i386 systems can from USB
logbon72@gmail.com

Bootable Kaspersky CD

Submitted by admin on Sun, 01/18/2009 - 09:04.

To make Kaspersky Bootable CD just burn the iso image shared above on a CD using Nero or any other cd burner software.

cool

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 21:28.

thanks,!

To Update definitions of the KAV

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:55.

If you have KAV or KIS installed on your system or any friend's PC, just use the distribution folder to get them on your desktop and copy them to your bootable USB stick and ur done.

To Update definitions of the KAV

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 04:10.

where is the distribution folder. I didnt found at KAV installation folder.

To make the CD

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 01:56.

Do i need to extract the files from the iso image? to burn it onto a disk or just the zipfile unopened?

Couldn't get it to work

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 15:59.

2 things:
1.
The fixgt2.bat only supports drive letter from d: to k:, which is bad, because my flash drive was m:
I did change it to h:, but a lot of unskilled users can't.

2.
I made the Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk and booted a computer with it.
It went fine until it got to load dhcpcd. After about 20 sek it startet to shut down, without any notice and without scanning the computer, so this USB Rescue Disk is worthless.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 13:46.

I tried this and it worked fine, if its not working for you doesn't mean its worthless for others also.

Regards,
Rohit

its easy!

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 11:12.

Just change the letter of desired drive at windows Control and Settings Panel/Administration/Disks (Drives) ...

Sorry, i realy dont know how those menu items named in english version of Windows, but i think its clear and ok to understand what i mean.

p_13@mail.ru

All says (here) that

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 11:17.

All says (here) that Kaspersky is more powerfull than Dr.Web.
But LiveCD and customer service are better in Dr.Web!

So try Dr.Web Live CD. Its easy to download, burn it to USB FLASH with any burning program and it$ free!

Build USB stick using Unetbootin

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 10:17.

Tested succesfully.

Use UNetBootin to build your KAV2009 rescue usb stick.

Download unetbootin from sourceforge.net, launch it, select Diskimage, enter the path of your KAV iso, click OK, done.

Addendum: Build USB stick using Unetbootin

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 13:37.

When you boot from your usb stick, you'll see Unetbootin menu with some entries.

The right one is "rescue".

If you leave your pc unattended, it will loop around the "Default" option.

To avoid this, open up syslinux.cfg with a text editor, modify first lines from this:

default vesamenu.c32 prompt 0 menu title UNetBootIn timeout 100 label unetbootindefault menu label Default kernel /ubnkern append initrd=/ubninit root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot quiet label ubnentry0 menu label rescue kernel /isolinux/rescue append initrd=/isolinux/rescue.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot quiet

to this:

default vesamenu.c32 prompt 0 menu title Kaspersky Rescue 2009 timeout 100 label unetbootindefault menu label Default kernel /isolinux/rescue append initrd=/isolinux/rescue.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot quiet #kernel /ubnkern #append initrd=/ubninit root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs #cdroot quiet label ubnentry0 menu label rescue kernel /isolinux/rescue append initrd=/isolinux/rescue.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot quiet

Now your usb stick will complete boot even if it's unattended.

Hope this helps.

Stefano

Persistent Changes

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 08:38.

Does the steps above allows the virus database updates to be saved (persistent changes)?

Thanks,
Steve

didn't work

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 15:36.

asking about kernal or somting for linux ...

Perfect!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 17:46.

Thanks for this solution.

Cheers,
Henk-Sjoerd.

Failed

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 22:28.

Upon attemting to boot from the flash drive: (Created with Gentooo as per instructions)

'Could not find kernal image: linux"

So, fail. ;<

It works

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 13:15.

Thanks 4 this tips.
I've been searching another solution than cd boot n i got this.
And it easy to build.

Thank you very much,

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 08:22.

Thank you very much, everythink is perfect!

Kaspersky Rescue Disk no longer available

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 02:41.

The ftp link doesn't work any longer, and Kaspersky seems to have removed the file from the relevant directory at:

http://downloads1.kaspersky-labs.com/utils/RescueDisk/

Can the same techniques be used to make bootable USB drives with ISO files from other antivirus programs? Avira makes a rescue program at:

http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html

Link to download the Kaspersky rescue ISO

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 09:55.

http://devbuilds.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/

I couldn't figure out what's wrong

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 06:25.

When I run fixgt2.bat and type in the drive letter of flash drive, It says the drive letter you entered was not recognized. Please give me solution

help me

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 12:46.

I don't know why it show me that kind of error message
I entered right drive letter, but it show sme
"you entered not recoginzed drive letter"

SAME HERE. NOT RECOGNIZED

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 13:09.

SAME HERE.
NOT RECOGNIZED DRIVE LETTER..

Cant download

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 12:03.

Is anyone finding that the link for the Gentoo Bootable USB maker isnt download correctly? I only get 487kbs then the download says it is finished and then when i try to open the archive WinRar says that its broken. Any else have this problem? Is there any chance that you could mirror it somewhere else a .zip that is full so that i could download it? Thank you alot.