Tuesday, January 7, 2020

USB-based AV application that restores compromised Windows files from CD/DVD?

I just tried a couple of rescue disks (AVG and Kaspersky), and I was wondering if someone knew of a solution that would work like this:





  • The AV solution boots from a USB key, and works entirely from RAM (where the latest virus DB is downloaded)

  • The user inserts his Windows CD/DVD in the drive

  • If any Windows file is compromised, the AV application fetches a clean version from the CD/DVD and restores it on the hard drive

  • optionally, any compromised drive/user-land application is quarantied, and it is up to the user to reinstall those after he successfully rebooted into a restored Windows setup



Have you heard of a solution like this? It seems silly to reinstall a whole Windows computer just because one or a few system files were compromised.



Thank you.

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