How to Use An Antivirus Boot Disc or USB Drive to Ensure Your Computer is Clean — www.howtogeek.com — Readability

How to Use An Antivirus Boot Disc or USB Drive to Ensure Your Computer is Clean — www.howtogeek.com — Readability: "If your computer is infected with malware, running an antivirus within Windows may not be enough to remove it. If your computer has a rootkit, the malware may be able to hide itself from your antivirus software.

This is where bootable antivirus solutions come in. They can clean malware from outside the infected Windows system, so the malware won’t be running and interfering with the clean-up process."

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