When you’ve got a PC completely infected with viruses, sometimes it’s best to reboot into a
rescue disc and run a full virus scan from there. Here’s how to use the BitDefender Rescue
We’ve already shown you how to use the Kaspersky rescue disk, and this method works
similarly, but has a couple of advantages, like automatic virus definition updates and an
integrated data recovery tool—though you can always use both to be doubly sure your PC is cleaned.
Download and Burn the Image to a Disc
The first thing you’ll need to do is head over to the BitDefender site and download the latest version of their rescue CD, and then use an application to burn that ISO image file to an optical disc—we prefer using ImgBurn, but there’s plenty of ways to burn an ISO to a disc.
If you’d rather create a USB drive to boot from, you can download UNetbootin and use it to
create the bootable flash drive—just select Diskimage and then browse to the location of the
downloaded ISO file.
Using the BitDefender Rescue CD to Clean an Infected PC
Once you drop the disc in the drive and reboot, you’ll see a prompted menu that lets you
choose the language you’d like to start with, or you can boot from the hard drive normally.
We’ll obviously choose to start up the rescue CD.
Once you’ve started it up, if the resolution is too small, you can use the menu at the bottom
to head to Settings –> Display to adjust it.
From here you can change the resolution to something bigger—you can use 1024×768 to
make sure you’ve got enough room on the screen to see everything.
Once you’ve accepted the license agreement, the scan starts immediately.
If you need to do some work on your file system, you can easily use the File Manager to get
to your files—the nice thing is that it opens up directly into your Windows drive.
There’s also a copy of TestDisk installed automatically, which can be used to recover data.
It’s as simple as that. Enjoy your virus-free PC.
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