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how to remove boot sector virus
Name: sureshbabu Date: October 16, 2002 at 21:49:14 Pacific OS: Windows98 CPU/Ram: 256 mb
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My hard disk contains bootsector virus and it is not comingup. I think that I may require some software to remove boot sector virus
Name: VladTsyrklevich Date: October 16, 2002 at 22:30:31 Pacific
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1.)How do you know you have it? 2.)What type is it? 3.)Are you sure? Because if it is it's very unlikely because if they mess around with your MBR or boot sector its VERY dangerous...
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Response Number 2
Name: www Date: October 16, 2002 at 22:34:55 Pacific
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use a known virus free win98 startup disk, write protect it, the at the a: prompt type fdisk /mbr ,and press enter. and then use f-prot dos based antivirus scanner
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Response Number 3
Name: jon Date: October 17, 2002 at 06:40:32 Pacific
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or what you could do is do a low level format with power diag from maxtor.com it works on any type of drive to do a llf.
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Response Number 4
Name: Jt Date: October 17, 2002 at 18:07:59 Pacific
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I was reinstalling windows 200 profesional because it was giving me errors about the root file was missing.So i reinstalled it and got all happy started installing all the good games and programs. i restart the computer and it tells me that NTLDR is missing or something like that. How do i fix that ?
Summary: anybody plz tell how to reomve boot sector virus, when my computer boots it tell, on board virus guard found boot sector virus. truly b@bs ...
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