Experiment – Testing the Effectiveness of Bootable Antivirus Solutions in Detecting Malicious Files
By: Jônatas Mendes
[ 03 September 2025 ]
This experiment aims to evaluate the effectiveness of bootable antivirus solutions in detecting malicious files, using as an example two samples of the most notorious ransomware in history, the WannaCry. One original sample and another slightly modified sample were used. The antivirus solutions tested were: Comodo Rescue Disk, AVG Rescue Disk, Norton Bootable Recovery Tool, F-Secure Rescue Disk, Kaspersky Rescue Disk, Avast Rescue Disk, ESET SysRescue and Dr. Web LiveDisk.