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is it a boot sector virus ???

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i was installing QUICK HEAL antivirus....when it said that my memory has active trojan.rootkit.h....so installation should stop....how to get rid of this ? i don have ne antivirus emergency disk....is it a boot sector virus ??? how to disinfect it ??? i am jus a kiddo

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 30, 2005 at 04:08:34 Pacific

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I found this on Symantec's site: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.rtkit.html

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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: May 30, 2005 at 04:33:44 Pacific

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Boot on a clean 98se floppy and: fdisk /mbr

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Name: smifff
Date: May 30, 2005 at 14:24:35 Pacific

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Download and run this http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight/

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