>I'm helping to remove an infection from a fellow's computer. I have removed two root kits and forteen trojans, but one MBR virus was lurking on the HD and I found it this morning. I don't know what it is called besides the very special names I have given it. The MBR virus will not let me reformat. Any ideas for complete removal of the thing?
Are you having fun yet? ;-)
You can certainly try Borislav's idea of running FIXMBR from the Setup CD's Recovery console.
If you don't have a setup CD, the GPartEd LiveCD may help:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=gparted+mbr+fixYou could also consider getting a new hard drive - they're cheap.
Regards. Al
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