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Mbr Virus help please
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From
04/04/2009 06:35:55
Neil Mc Donald
Cencom Systems P/L
The Sun, Australia
 
 
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04/04/2009 06:34:28
Neil Mc Donald
Cencom Systems P/L
The Sun, Australia
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01393108
Message ID:
01393240
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Did you format the floppy on a know clean machine, if so you still have a root kit active.

>>This does not work - The virus interupts the process each time I press enter
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>1. Format a floppy and make it bootable.
>>>2. Copy FDISK to the floppy.
>>>3. boot the computer from the floppy.
>>>4. Run FDISK /MBR six or seven times in quick succession, then remove the floppy and boot from the HDD.
>>>
>>>>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?
Regards N Mc Donald
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