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FDISKing Sub7 infected system
Name: Jeff Date: December 17, 2001 at 09:16:06 Pacific
Comment:
Hi -
I'm trying to repartition and format a drive that had the Sub7 virus on it. Apparently this thing has done quite a number on the drive. After I setup a primary partition and reboot, the partition I just created doesn't "stick;" Fdisk just says that no partitions exist. Any ideas? I've already done fdisk /mbr...
Name: Chris Hodapp Date: December 17, 2001 at 18:53:36 Pacific
Reply:
What are you booting from? Floppy or hard disk? Also, have you tried clearing BIOS settings? I'm not sure what Sub7 does, but some viruses can do nasty things with boot sectors... I'd advise you to clear BIOS settings, get a boot disk from another computer and put FDISK on it, and boot from that.
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Response Number 2
Name: fred6008 Date: December 17, 2001 at 19:13:15 Pacific
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ARe you restarting the computer? Some of the modern FDISKs put you back on drive A: but the partition is not created until you reboot. If it is not something simple, failure by FDISK usually means something is wrong with the hard drive.
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Response Number 3
Name: Jim Date: December 18, 2001 at 07:17:56 Pacific
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If something seems to have write-protected the boot sectors, try the command LOCK C: Then try fdisk. The Lock command allows low-level access.
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Response Number 4
Name: A Mentor Date: February 14, 2002 at 04:40:02 Pacific
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If you are so ignorate to FDISK a drive without understanding the basic os and tools. You deserve to have problems. Sounds like you were better off infected with sub7 instead of JB.IS.A.STUPID.MORON_
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Response Number 5
Name: kevin Date: March 26, 2002 at 14:42:07 Pacific
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SUB7 IS NOT A VIRUS! It's only a trojan. The Sub7 itself only installs itself into your computer.
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Response Number 6
Name: Bonnie Date: April 8, 2002 at 15:00:13 Pacific
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I have a hard drive with no operating system at all I'm trying to install win 98 fresh install, I have a start up disk but when try to fdisk I'm getting an error that read ERROR can not read fdisk How can I fix this I need to get an operating system on this PC
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Response Number 7
Name: ¤d0h¤ Date: April 8, 2002 at 22:07:26 Pacific
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You moron... u didn't get sub7'ed... you downloaded a version of it that contained the w95.spaces.gr virus (it's something like that anyways...) you gotta us a antivirus client & remove w95.spaces before u can touch anything on the drive... (that's high level or low level)
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