If you visit this site frequently, you’ll notice that I am a big fan of Kaspersky products. They do offer a few free products such as a web based scanner where you can scan your computer for virus but no removal online, a rescue disk that you can boot in to Linux and scan your hard drive for virus using the latest 2009 engine and AVPTool for you to run an on-demand scanning and removal of virus. As for their commercial product, they have Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 to protect your computer in real-time. They also have enterprise products which I’ve never tested so I can’t tell you much about it…
I just stumbled on another free tool offered by Kaspersky called AVZ developed by a Russian named Oleg Zaytsev. It started off as an independent anti-viral toolkit but Oleg went to Kaspersky, so now it is Kaspersky’s property. It is said that AVZ malware detection technology is built-in into AVPTool and the latest Kaspersky 2009 but actually AVZ has a lot more extra tools that is not included to the AVPTool and Kaspersky 2009.
AVZ is an anti-viral toolkit for system analysis and recovery. It’s main purpose is similar to Trojan Hunter or Ad-Aware which is meant to remove “malwares” but not “viruses”.
AVZ enables you to automatically or manually locate and remove spyware and AdWare programs and modules, rootkits and other software tools intended to conceal running processes, files or system data from the operating system, network and e-mail worms, various trojan applications including password stealers, malware downloaders, Trojan-Spies, and Backdoors (tools allowing remote control of a computer), trojan dialers, keyloggers and other means of tracking user’s activity.
The toolkit contains special feature that automatically repair the most typical registry modifications performed by malicious software. Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, Desktop settings, Policies, executable files startup parameters and others may be recovered using this tool. The repair operations are rarely performed by antiviruses, and quite often, after a piece of malware is deleted, the system remains corrupted.
AVZ also has a feature called AVZGuard which is used to block critical operations in the system. When AVZGuard is enabled, no application can launch, change the registry, kill a process, etc.
It is highly recommended to enable AVZGuard before system cleanup – it prevents malicious software from recovering its files, registry items, etc. There are times when it is nearly impossible to kill a malware process because whenever you kill it, the malware immediately spawns another new process. With the help of AVZGuard, the malware can no longer spawn a new process. If you need to run a cleaner tool when AVZGuard is enabled, you can do so by running the application as trusted from AVZ.
Unlike Kaspersky Rescue Disk and AVPTool that doesn’t have a update feature, AVZ has a built-in updater for us to easily update the malware definition database. There are many other useful utilities in AVZ, so do check it out. AVZ is another great addition to my list of virus removal tools in my USB flash drive. It is small, portable, really works and most importantly, FREE.
Need Help to find complete documentation of AVZ tool.help file
Ativando o enable do AVZ Guard, mesmo como Administrador, aparece esta msg.
AVZ Guard error: C0000001
ALGUÉM SABE COMO RESOLVER???
P.S. – Meu S.O é Vista SP1 Ultimate 32bts.
Vista SP1, AVZ Guard fails to load with following error:
AVZ Guard error: C0000001
Can anybody tell how to get around this?
Hello Again Venkat – Post 11,
The link that I gave needs some more information. First of all, it looks strange, since the file is named differently – avz4.com- than the file linked at this blog. In fact, it shows in Windows Explorer as a MS-DOS Application. However, when run it comes up with a Windows GUI.
Unfortunately, the update button (last on the right at the bottom) is greyed out.
Anyway, I found another link which the download dialogue box identifies as devbuilds.kaspersky-labs.com/. I tried going to this link but there is only a page with a lot of links divided by type of Kaspersky products. So far I haven\’t been able to discover which of them is for the AVZ Toolkit.
Hello Venkat – Post 11,
I found a Kaspersky address which has the download link for the AVZ Toolkit. It is: .
It is on the page for Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 MP1 (build 7.0.1.325) because the Toolkit is their recommended method for submitting malware that is unidentified.
Need some help with AVZ Guard error: C0000001 . Operating System Vista Home Premium.
when i tried to enable ‘AVZ Guard’, I got the following error ‘AVZ Guard error: C0000061′
If AVZ fails to update, download the latest database below and extract it to Base folder.
z-oleg.com/secur/avz_up/avzbase.zip
nice but online database update fails
Under Vista SP1, AVZ Guard fails to load with following error:
AVZ Guard error: C0000001
Can anybody tell how to get around this?
This what i am looking for,thanks ray
Thanks cool tool
another great find!
Thanks raymond
it has been very helpful for me.
Can you just tell me where can we get offline updates of Bitdefender antivirus
I already knew about it. But anyway Thanks for the details.
Thanks Mick Magoo for giving the help file link in English of AVZ toolkit.
Really nice. Needs thorough browsing, though, due to some false positives — including ZAAV’s scanningprocess.exe, which is in fact an integrated Kaspersky functionality. Thanks a lot, Raymond.
great ;)
Nice one Raymond.
You can download an help file in english at bottom of this post
can i use it with my kaspersky internet security, which is installed on my computer, ………….. with regard
Hurray 4 kaspersky! lol
Programs like this are always useful
Its not about the bad things that were found- one in this case but the false positives indicating WinPatrol as a suspicion as a keylogger and another program, Vista Start Menu as an events interceptor. Both are squeaky clean and have used for a long time with no problems with other malware cleaners.
thanks ray! :) this is really help
Looks good I must check this out.
I normally advice against enabling any tools that prevents registry changes. Some people use the teatimer from Spybot, and they mess up their system more because they do not know what changes to allow and what not.
IMHO, Microsoft should have enabled long long time ago just 2 critical protections: the Winlogon Notify, and new BHO. These are very low frequency changes, but very important.
thank you very much
Thnx raymond, very useful
i have kis7 installed, do i need to install this one? thanks.. ray…. great job…. you’re the man…
Nice tool
Thank you.
Thanks tonz for this great stuff man. It is awesome. Keep up the good work… congrats :)
Thanks Ray! you are very kinds!
Wow great one! addition to my list too…
Nice job Raymond.
I have found documentation about it on the help file in other language not in English,I searched for it in the Kaspersky site and it says the Phrase not found .I checked the home site of it also in other language.
thx man!
Another great find!
Thanks!
Still waiting for the KAV license from the previous post…
thanks for the ifo Raymond! :)
HI RAY…
1) IF KIS8 ALLREADY INSTALL SHOULD INSTAL AVZ
2)KIS8 + AVZ IT’S OK…..GOOD PROTECTION
Thanks ya man
nice one raymond
HI RAY….
IF I ALREADY HAVE KIS8 SHOULD I INSTALL THIS TOOL
Good work ray….
poc tem
Thanks man.