Peter Staack Product Testimonials & Reviews

One of my customers has a shiny fancy notebook / tablet style laptop PC, running Windows Vista Home Premium. It's got all the bells and whistles you'd expect of an expensive laptop. And, for the 4th time since he's bought it, I've had to resurrect it from seeming death.

He's like the grim reaper of electronics, with a history of bricking all sorts of computers, meters, cameras, and phones. Despite running the award winning top-ranked anti-virus, Avira AntiVir 8, the award winning Comodo Firewall, and all of the Vista security features, he's still managed to catch some nasty viruses (or "virii", if you prefer). He's gotten better about disabling security features and disregarding security warnings, and it's been almost 3 months since the last near-FUBAR. But today his laptop would freeze just past POST and prelim boot loader, and he needs it working for a meeting this weekend.

Luckily, I had a FREE Avira AntiVir Rescue CD handy, to purge the system of whatever virus was causing the problems in a few minutes (his hard drive is pretty empty). I have two or three of these CDs at every one of my offices, at my parents' house, and my condo (most as current as June '08). So far, it's been a silver bullet, never failing to find and remove the malicious files. Then, I used a Vista SP1 System Recovery / Rescue Disk that I had built the last time he had problems, and we were able to boot 'er up like new. Now, I'm running a deep scan using the award-winning Kaspersky Lab's Free Virus Scan just to be safe. I might also run the free Avast Home Edition on there, too, if I have time to spare. Although it's a little disturbing how frequently I've had to rescue his system from himself, at least it's been really easy each time with the right tools.

If you want to build your own Vista SP1 System Rescue / Recover CD, you can follow these quick steps to build one. There is also a 120MB downloadable ISO available, that works well.