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Boot Sector Virus
Name: Edric Date: October 7, 2003 at 03:43:10 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro/Linux CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon XP/512 MB DDRR
Comment:
Hello, I recently made my PC into a dual-boot system, but that is not the problem, but it surfaced once I did that.
At the bootloader screen where I select which OS to load, after selecting the OS I get a notice that my HDD has a boot sector virus. How do I fix this problem? Do I have to reformat my HDD and reinstall my OS and software? That would be an annoying process once again, and I just did it. Can anyone help?
Name: vhollund Date: October 7, 2003 at 09:38:37 Pacific
Reply:
What program do you have? I think it might be your antivirus that cannot handle it?
Try somthing else, normally it should repair
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Response Number 2
Name: Edric Date: October 7, 2003 at 12:54:45 Pacific
Reply:
What do you mean by what program do I have, do you mean the anti-virus? If that is the case I have F-Prot for Linux and Norton Anti-Virus 2003 for Windows.
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Response Number 3
Name: Edric Date: October 8, 2003 at 01:16:59 Pacific
Reply:
I disabled the Boot Virus Detection from the BIOS and thus no Virus is detected plus the graphical bootloader that was installed with Linux (LILO) loads unlike before where I only had a text version of the bootloader (somehow the BIOS Boot Virus Detection conflicted with the bootloader).
That does not mean that the virus is not there just because it is not detected. I would like to know how to remove it, since both my Anti-Virus applications on Windows and Linux did not detect any virus. I want to remove this virus. Hope anyone can help.
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