What to do after being attacked by virus?

If your PC is infected with VIRUS , you'll get a black screen or a warning "operating system not found" or something equally ominous when you power up your system .You may experience following symptoms also:

• Your computer stops responding or locks up often
• Your computer crashes and restarts every few minutes
• Your computer restarts on its own and then fails to run normally
• Applications on your computer don't work correctly
• Disks or disk drives are inaccessible
• You can't print correctly
• You see unusual error messages
• You see distorted menus and dialog boxes

After an extensive or deep-rooted virus infection,PC will not loaded normally.In that situation you need to boot up with software repair tools from a source other than your hard drive. That's where the AVG Rescue CD will come in handy.The AVG Rescue CD is essentially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus supplied through Linux distribution. It can be used in the form of a bootable CD or bootable USB flash drive to recover your computer when the system cannot be loaded normally. In short, the AVG Rescue CD enables you to fully remove infections from an otherwise inoperable PC and render the system bootable again.

Key technologies

• Anti-virus: protection against viruses, worms and Trojans
• Anti-spyware: protection against spyware, adware and identity theft
• Administration toolkit: system recovery tools
• Ability to perform a clean boot from CD or USB stick
• Free support and service for paid license holders of any AVG product
• Suitable for recovering MS Windows and Linux operating systems (FAT32 and NTFS file systems)

Apart from the usual AVG functions (malware detection and removal, updates from internet or external device, etc.), the AVG Rescue CD also contains the following set of administration tools:
Midnight Commander - a two-panel file manager
Windows Registry Editor– simple registry editor for more experienced users
TestDisk - powerful hard drive recovery tool
Ping - to test the availability of network resources (servers, domains, IP addresses)
Common Linux programs and services– vi text editor, OpenSSH daemon, ntfsprogs etc.

The AVG Rescue CD comes in two flavors: an ISO image that can be easily burned to an optical disc, or a compressed version that can be installed to a bootable flash drive.The AVG Rescue CD is a free-to-use product that anyone can download

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