I usually have a bone to pick with Anti-Virus vendors because their products tend to slow my system down and often miss viruses. As a result, I switch vendors quite regularly. At the moment, my Anti-Virus vendor is Kaspersky.Now Kaspersky itself isn't free but they're offering a completely FREE bootable Rescue Disk which is well worth having.
You can view a page about it and download it from here.
The Direct Download is here.
The rescue disk downloads as a 206 MB ISO file which you can use your favourite CD Burner program to write to CD.
Why is this CD So Good?
You can start your computer from this CD and know that since it's a CD, nothing will be written to the device (it's safe from viruses). It will load a nice GUI interface and will allow you to scan your computer. Since the systems on your computer's hard drive won't be active, any virus you have won't be able to hide and it won't be locked.
Even better, if you have network card, the CD will attempt to connect to the internet. You'll be able to download the latest anti-virus signatures (overcoming a major weakness in other boot disks of this type).
The CD also includes a web browser, so if your PC isn't working and you just want to get onto the internet, it will work.
This truly is a great rescue disk.
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