Antivirus and anti-spyware scanning. A powerful toolset for the rescue and repair of infected machines.

The AVG Rescue CD incorporates the full scanning power of AVG Anti-Malware edition, offering extended protection to your personal computer due to the Anti-Virus and the Anti-Spyware component. Enabling you to fully scan and heal infections on your inoperable computer. You can perform full or partial scans of both system memory and hard disks (including archive files such as zip and rar), to remove infections such as viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, adware and identity-theft. AVG Rescue CD can even detect and remove many potentially unwanted programs that may also be part of the cause of your computer's problems.

Updating virus definitions

The AVG Rescue CD allows updating from within the application environment via many sources including the Internet, external USB drives, and the existing definition files (if AVG is already installed on the computer). 

Minimum system requirements

The AVG Rescue CD provides the user with the possibility to boot-up and access Þles on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system (using either FAT, FAT32 or NTFS file systems). It is necessary that the computer's BIOS will allow direct booting from the CD, (for correct CD startup) and also that the computer has at least 128 MB of RAM memory installed (256 MB RAM is highly recommended). Finally, a CD-ROM or compatible device must be installed in the computer.