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Kaspersky Rescue Disc Requests

By on January 24, 2012 in Anti-Malware Tools

I’m a huge fan of the Kaspersky Recue Disc (KRD), however I do have 2 major issues with it that I wish the guys over at Kaspersky would fixed (and soon). kaspersky rescue disc

  1. 50% of the time the Kaspersky Rescue Disk starts up with a blank black screen.  Super annoying and there doesn’t seem to be much of a solution.  Maybe they could make KRD entirely text based and thus avoid trying to load excessive files for different graphics cards.
  2. Why the hell does it take the Kaspersky Rescue Disc 20-30 minutes (or longer) to update the database?!  I’m on a 30 MB cable connection.  I can download a 2 GB iso from Microsoft in that time.  Seriously…fix that PLEASE!!!

That’s really it.  If they could fix these 2 issues that would be soooo awesome.

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  • eddies92

    ive noticed some computers dont like KRD which is why i stay away from it and bust it out as a last resort.

  • Anonymous

    I’m gonna bring my UBCD4WIN with me from now on. The Dr. Web standalone scanner can be easily added to it. Dr. Web is excellent for disinfecting files (like .sys files or bootsector infections).

    • Reggie

      That’s what I do. I also like to put SuperAntispware portable on my UBCD4WIN disc.

  • Abottjen

    If they could also make the scan times faster that would be great to. I’d also want a better scanning UI. I hate how they cut the full scanning path off as it’s scanning. It would be nice to know where the hell it is in the scan.

  • Dan

    There is a text-only option when you start KRD. The only problem with it is every time it finds something you have to decide what to do with it in order for the scanning to continue as opposed to letting it scan the entire hard drive first, so you have to be sitting there the entire time waiting for it to find something.

    • Anonymous

      True, however before it loads there is a graphical UI that never loads (the black screen here). I’m asking for straight on text menus right off the bat.

  • ZOU

    Tell me about it. I have had the same problem a few times.

  • ZOU

    Besides KRD, I have Dr. Web and UBCD4WIN on my Sardu disk and over 3.5 GB of other goodies, so that comes in handy.

  • Reggie

    I agree on both points. I usually boot to text mode then you can launch the graphical interface from there.

  • Robert

    So, are you saying Kaspersky is sort of becoming slow then?

  • ZOU

    Not saying that KRD is slow, just saying that sometimes it leaves you hanging on a black screen. Now if you want to talk slow, I ran Dr. Web’s rescue disk scanner and it took forever to scan a clean computer. It was like some kind of loop where it was scanning in circles.

    • Anonymous

      If I’m scanning with the KRD I just scan the bootsectors, c:users and c:windows

      • http://techmansworld.blogspot.com/ MHazell

        How come you don’t scan the entire drive? Some malware can be hidden in one folder on the root of the C: drive and will not get scanned because it was a created folder on the drive.

      • http://techmansworld.blogspot.com/ MHazell

        How come you don’t scan the entire drive? Some malware can be hidden in one folder on the root of the C: drive and will not get scanned because it was a created folder on the drive.

        • Anonymous

          I only care about removing the bootsector rootkits and the .sys rootkits. After those are gone I can boot into normal mode and finish the cleanup much faster. If I have a lot of spare time I’ll let it scan the entire HD.

          • http://techmansworld.blogspot.com/ MHazell

            Another question: Do you include CCleaner on your UBCD4WIN?

  • John

    Matt, how do u select certain folders in krd?

  • Eric5150

    I worked removing the zeroaccess rootkit on a customer’s computer this weekend (Feb 10-11 2012); interestingly I reached for the KRD, did the updates (as of Feb 10), scanned the entire hard drive, it didn’t find anything, except for what Norton 360 had already quarantined (the antivirus solution the customer had installed). I then downloaded AVG’s Linux Based rescue disk, and it found an infected cdrom.sys, mrxsmb.sys, and some fake Oak Technologies Audio Service drivers usr11g.dll and kbfiltr.dll. The AVG rescue CD is text based and it is straightforward and you really don’t need a graphical user interface. It updated faster than the KRD. I was impressed by AVG, I normally wouldn’t consider it as a front-line tool for difficult malware cleanup.


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