There are a variety of ways to boot into the so-called Recovery mode the ESC, F11 or F12 keys are the most common way to enter the boot menu. Once you have created the Rescue Disk, plug it into your infected computer and reboot. Creating the rescue disk only takes a few minutes, depending on the speed of your computer and internet connection.įor detailed instructions with screenshots please visit our FAQ: Create Avast Rescue Disk as a bootable USB flash drive or CD.

All you need is an uninfected computer with Avast Antivirus 2015 installed and an empty USB flash drive (make sure it is fairly new so that it supports booting) or a blank recordable CD/DVD.

You can create the Avast Rescue Disk from any Avast product. To run a virus scan when offline, create an Avast Rescue Disk.