Avira AntiVir Rescue System

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Avira AntiVir Rescue System This is the Avira AntiVir Rescue System. The Avira AntiVir Rescue System is designed to boot from CD/DVD. In this manner it is possible to repair a damaged system, to rescue data or to scan the system for virus infections. The Avira AntiVir Rescue System is updated several times a day. At Avira homepage you can download the most recent security updates or a current version of the Avira Antivir Rescue System. Usage To start Avira AntiVir Rescue System insert the CD/DVD in your CD/DVD-ROM device and reboot the computer. Avira AntiVir Rescue System is starting the bootmanager now. If the Avira AntiVir Rescue System does not start automatically, see section 'Setting up your BIOS' below.
After Booting, you see the bootmanager-menu. You then can choose either booting from local hard disc or booting the Avira AntiVir Rescue System from CD/DVD-ROM. Press key '2' to choose "boot into AntiVir Rescue System" and confirm with 'enter'. Now the Avira AntiVir Rescue System is starting.
Next Step is to choose your prefered language. Your choices are English and German. Use 'key up' or 'key down' to navigate in the menu. Take the choice by pressing 'space bar' and confirm with 'enter'. The Rescue System boot process is proceeding. This can take some minutes.
When Avira AntiVir Rescue System is up, a graphical menu is displayed. For navigation in menu use 'key up' and 'key down'. Confirm with 'enter'. The Menue offers you the following choices: readme: In this menu a readme document is available. Here you can find information about usage of Avira AntiVir Rescue System. scan: This will initialize a full (this includes all mounted filesystems) system scan. Be aware that this may take a while. log: Shows the results of the last scan. Logfile is saved as /tmp/avlogfile. savelog: Save the logfile on hard disk or floppy disk. update: Choosing this option provides the opportunity to update your AntiVir files. Updates can be downloaded from: https://dl.antivir.de/down/vdf/rescue_update.zip. You can either burn the rescue_update.zip file on a CD/DVD-ROM or copy rescue_update.zip into the existing filesystem on your hard disk. open: Brings up a linux console with limited instruction set. halt: Shutdown the computer.
Setting up your BIOS Avira AntiVir Rescue System is designed to boot from CD/DVD-ROM. To boot from CD/DVD-ROM the boot priority in BIOS has to be reorganized. For editing BIOS preferences the computer has to be restarted. After restart a key has to be pressed to enter BIOS. Usually the BIOS is printing the used key on the screen. On most systems it is 'del' or 'F1'. Press that key on booting to enter BIOS. When you have entered the BIOS you have to set the first boot device to CD/DVD-ROM. This option is usually located in the index card 'boot options'. After confirming by 'save and exit' the computer is restarting again. Make sure that the Avira AntiVir Rescue System CD/DVD-ROM is in the CD/DVD-ROM drive. On some system booting from CD/DVD-ROM has to be confirmed on boot process by pressing any key. The computer is starting the Avira AntiVir Rescue System bootmanager now.
License Avira AntiVir Rescue System is based on multiple components: For searching malware Avira AntiVir is used, which is released under Avira GmbH End-user License Agreement (EULA). The linux kernel is released under General public license version 2. The kernel source code can be downloaded from www.kernel.org. As bootmanager isolinux is used. It is an open source program, which is published under General public license version 2. The source code is available from www.kernel.org/ The commandline interface references busyboxes which are available under General public license version 2. The source code can be downloaded from www.busybox.net/downloads. To provide support for NTFS file systems NTFS-3G is used. The driver is published under General public license version 2. The source code is available from https://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#download. For all parts of the Avira AntiVir Rescue System, which are published under General public license, the source code is also available by Avira GmbH. Please contact support@avira.com.

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