Avast is a good av an all but its a bit weird that the rescue disk costs money, whereas all other free av’s rescue disk cost are free
why dont all vendors make a free AV?
I have no idea why, but considering that it may use something like winPE to run outside of windows there is a license fee which avast have to pay.
It is also on CD not a downloadable .iso file.
Of course you don’t have to buy it, but considering its predecessor the avast Bart CD cost around US$ 99+ and not US$9.99 plus tax and postage, isn’t so unreasonable, well I don’t think so. But then again I don’t feel I need it.
AVG is free and it has free disk…
That is neither here nor there in why the avast one isn’t free.
If A V G aren’t using winPE, etc. then there would be no license fee.
The company has to make money somehow, though at ten bucks a copy I doubt they are getting rich off the recovery disk. I’m just grateful they offer the free antivirus program!
Avast used to have a rescue disk intended for support personnel that was a good deal more expensive http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363533,00.asp
Don’t know how the content compares to their present offering.
I can’t believe Bill Gates is still making money from MS-DOS ;D LOL
LOOL…with over 151+ million users you dont expect avast to give away a rescue disk for free…I mean even they need to make some money off their pocket ;D
I would be interested in knowing if anyone has had the need to use the Avast Rescue Disk? If so, how the process went.
Any issues implementing or recommendations realized?
Thanks 
I had one situation that it may have helped if I had it. I tried all the Windows restore, refresh, recovery options to no avail. I was running W8-RP at the time of the problem. Since I wanted to go back to W7-SP1 before installing W8-RTM I decided to install Ubuntu in the wipe out all Windows mode. Ubuntu installed fine and I played around with it on that computer for a couple of weeks. I was and am still using Ubuntu on my Netbook so I have some basic knowledge in installing and using Ubuntu.
Then after a couple of weeks I did an install of W7 from the re-installation CD with Windows reformatting the entire internal HDD before installing W7. Everything went fine. It just took about a half a day to get Windows 7 installed and updated (150+ updates) and another half a day to get all my apps re-installed. Everything has worked fine since.
I would not recommend anyone use this method if they can’t get Windows to boot. However, in extreme cases where nothing else will work this worked fine for me. I don’t know if the avast! Rescue disk would have worked. However, since I was going to to a clean install of W7 anyway all is well that ended well.
When I had Norton it kept going a darn sight odder than pear shaped, one month I had to re-format twice… two months later I had to remove Norton and re-install it - I said enough!
From that day on I ditched Norton and kept a clone copy of my C drive updating when I felt I need to. So any problems at all I could either re-clone or swap the hard drives over. Keeping a cloned copy is better than any rescue disk…
If the hard drive goes kaput the rescue disc will be pretty pointless, any disc will be pretty pointless! A clone will save the day and this all could be done on a external USB drive.
Read any forum about about people losing their hard drive and wanting to get the data back! Take an OEM machine that has a copy of the installation image in a hidden partition… lose the hard drive and you’ve lost that if you haven’t made a copy.
Dave