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Yosefor
Tin Contributor
May 07, 2026

Virus in Rufus while flashing USB for Kali?

I was planning to install kali on a bare metal, an old laptop, i downloaded new kali iso 26.1, then when i opened rufus to flash the iso to it, i got a pop up saying that my rufus is not updated to the newest version, it was as 4.9 and it said to update to 4.14 as you can see in the image that i did selected to download the updated, it was an exe, after that i opened the new rufus selected everything and started it, it gave me 2 pop ups saying these services are not compatible with the iso, do you want us to find and download the relevant versions of these services, so i clicked yes, because i didn't wanted that the copying process stops in the middle or something crashes, after 1 minute, i started getting virus and threat alerts form windows security, What Should i do now? HELP...

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  • GamingDivy's avatar
    GamingDivy
    Copper Contributor

    try previous versions from GitHub, this could be fixed soon. if the other version works, then it's a problem with Rufus new version itself

  • Emiery's avatar
    Emiery
    Tin Contributor

    For more thorough removal, download and run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (free version).