If
you are involved in IT repair either for your business or just for
casual purposes (family and friends). One of your most useful tools
can be a bootable CD. Bootable CDs can either be live versions of an
operating system (Linux) or a Rescue CD (e.g. AVG rescue )
A
live CD can can be used to test to operation of various unresponsive
items of a PC such as mouse, keyboard, monitor or simply to
experiment with a new operating system.
A
Rescue CD can boot a malware infected system, scan, remove viruses,
malware, spyware, copy and delete files, modify partitions and a
whole range of system tasks.
All
the items listed below were free at the time of publication (or
possibly can be purchased from the respective companies for a nominal
fee.)
List
AVG
Rescue CD:
http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd-download
BitDefender
Rescue CD:
http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/bitdefender-rescue-cd.iso
F-Secure
Rescue CD:
http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA-Labs/security-threats/tools/rescue-cd
Kaspersky
Rescue CD:
ftp://rescuedisk.kaspersky-labs.com/rescuedisk/
Ubuntu
(desktop)http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download
This
is not a complete list and new information will be added in future
posts.
