![]() Don’t assume this is going to work 100% on all variants of the virus prepare for the worst and assume you’ll do a factory re-set of the machine, which means wiping Windows and all the data on the disk. NOTE: since I bypassed Windows and mounted the hard drive with the Kaspersky Live CD, I took the opportunity to take a full, up-to-date backup of the owner’s data. This will start your rescue disk, booting into the graphics desktop. Press anything and your computer will continue to boot from the rescue disk.The Kaspersky Rescue Disk will begin booting.This is actually based on a slimmed-down Linux Live CD, with a KDE desktop (not that you need to know that) it’s a self-contained boot envirnment that is NOT Microsoft Windows and can’t be cross-infected by the Troj/Urausy Ransomware.Select a language and select Kaspersky Rescue Disk Graphic Mode, then hit ENTER. ![]() Select the CD or USB drive to boot into Kaspersky Rescue Disk over your infected hard drive.The CD will invoke an on-screen message like “press any key to boot from CD/DVD. You may need to hit f12 to invoke a one-time boot menu. Boot into your Kaspersky Rescue Disk to Remove malwareTo restart the infected computer, place your rescue disk into your disk drive, hold down the power button for ten seconds to power down your computer.Only insert the USB flash drive containing Kaspersky Rescue Disk when the machine is completely off – otherwise the infection may be spread to the USB drive!When your computer is completely shut down press the power button to turn it back on.You could also install the software onto a USB flash drive I won’t go into this sufficient to say most Windows machines have software to burn disks onto optical media. Download Kaspersky Rescue disk and burn it to a blank CD or DVD.You will also need to be able to call up a one-time boot menu (usually the f12 key at power-on) and make sure you can change the boot order in the infected machine’s BIOS so that you can boot into the Kaspersky Rescue Disk in place of your Windows install. To create a bootable Kaspersky Rescue Disk, you will need a clean, non-infected, computer with Internet access and a DVD or CD burner, OR, if the infected machine lacks an optical drive, a USB flash drive you can wipe and install Kaspersky Rescue Disk onto. Following our last security How-to, Identify the Troj/Urausy Ransom-ware infection, this describes using an anti-virus removal tool from Kaspersky to deal with the malware from my esteemed colleague’s laptop. ![]()
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