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Are bootable anti-virus/malware scans as good as the "normal" ones?

Bogdanov89

I recently started using the various bootable anti-virus/malware scanners, like the Kaspersky's Rescue Disk.

However i am really interested in how do these bootable scans compare to the "normal" Windows run scans.

For example, would a maximum scan from Kaspersky Rescue Disk find as many malware/viruses as a max scan from Kaspersky Total Security?

Assuming both anti-virus/malware scanners are up to date (latest versions and databases), which is expected to reliably find and clean more viruses/malware?

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Don't use that stuff, just get Malwarbytes.

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A bootable antivirus is able to detect pretty much the same amount of stuff as a normal antivirus. However, their main purpose is to clean up the system if it has a deeply embedded rootkit (a virus that embeds itself into the windows boot procedure, so can't be removed while inside windows) or if the malware is actively preventing your normal antivirus from running.

Generally, you should just use a normal antivirus because it's much easier to use (no need to reboot) and might have a better chance at heuristic analysis (analysing the behaviour of the software to see whether it's malicious), and it also allows you to have live protection (as soon as you download something, it will check whether it's infected or not). Having a bootable antivirus for when everything goes wrong is probably a good idea though.

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