Emsisoft Emergency Kit: Find and Remove Malware from USB Flash Drive

remove malware on Windows

Is my personal computer infected with malware? This is the first question that many people will identify with when observing that their team is working extremely slowly.

Despite having disabled to a few tools that start with Windows by using the «msconfig«, The personal computer is still working slowly for no apparent reason. Before you start uninstalling more applications and even formatting the entire hard drive to reinstall Windows we recommend analyze the team with «Emsisoft Emergency Kit«, An interesting tool that you can use for free and that will help you know if your operating system has been infected by any malware.

How does "Emsisoft Emergency Kit" run on my Windows computer?

The first thing you have to do is go to the official website of «Emsisoft Emergency Kit»To download the respective package, which represents approximately 150 MB. When you are at the download URL, you will be asked to enter your email address to stay informed about new updates in this tool, something that is not necessary to do and rather, you just have to wait a little time (about three seconds) for the download to start immediately.

Emsisoft Emergency Kit 01

When you have the downloaded file (which is generally an executable) you will have to double-click it. At that moment a window will appear very similar to the screenshot that we have placed in the upper part, where you must change the installation direction. We recommend using a small capacity USB stick (at least 1 GB) because all the files will not represent a great weight after the process is finished. If you have it then you must point the installation towards said USB pendrive so that all the files are unzipped in that location; all you have to do is press the "Extract" button once you are there.

Later you have to go to the location of your USB flash drive and specifically, to the folder where you unzipped all the "Emsisoft Emergency Kit" files. You will be able to notice two executables in that location, one of them being the one that belongs to the tool we are dealing with for now and the other, instead, to a similar one that fulfills the same function although, it works with a command terminal window.

Update the "Emsisoft Emergency Kit" database

Since the application was placed a long time ago, when you run this tool you will start to see a few pop-up windows that will appear and disappear. This is because it tries see if the program is updated. In most cases, this situation is not the case, so another additional window will appear that will suggest updating it at that moment, something very similar to the window that we will place below.

Emsisoft Emergency Kit 02

The update will take place in a few minutes, which will depend on your Internet connection bandwidth.

Malware search, analysis and disinfection

The same screenshot that we place at the top is showing us how to proceed with this tool. The first box belongs to the update in progress, while the second will begin to act so that a scan of all files is started present on the hard disk of the personal computer.

Emsisoft Emergency Kit 03

If "Emsisoft Emergency Kit" finds a threat, it will quarantine it, something of which you will be able to find out in the third box and where, how many files of malicious code have been discovered will appear. As you will be able to realize, with this tool we will have the possibility of discover and even eliminate some type of malware that may have infiltrated our Windows personal computer. The biggest advantage is that the tool is free, being compatible with any other antivirus system you have installed on your computer. Even when this is presented in such a way, there will be a moment in which the tool will suggest you, through some pop-up windows, that you use its antivirus system at a low cost, something that only the end user will have to decide on its convenience of use.


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