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virus in boot sector
Name: Tamil Date: November 13, 2002 at 10:52:34 Pacific OS: window m.e CPU/Ram: 800 mhz , 128mb
Comment:
Hi, I have found a virus in boot sector, Kindly any one suggest me how to remove it.
Name: wawadave Date: November 13, 2002 at 11:13:44 Pacific
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hello as long as your not duel booting with m.e bootdisk you can d/l one at www.bootdisk.com do from anther computer and write protect it reboot at the a:fdisk /mbr click enter and after its done reboot and rescan for virus it should be gone unless some programd writing it back
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Response Number 2
Name: Tamil Date: November 13, 2002 at 22:18:30 Pacific
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Hi, Previously I checked with Norton Anti Virus. It detected virus in boot sector. then i removed it due to, it doesn't start boot up. after done this able to opennig windows but still system is very slow.What to do with boot disk .com. if i can do with a:fdisk/mbr as you recommend. Will it remove all the files and what it can do without afecting existing files. Can you please explain these..
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Response Number 3
Name: basketcase Date: November 18, 2002 at 06:55:14 Pacific
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is this virus the same as W95.Spaces.1445 cause i think my computer has this virus, and suggestions on what i should do?
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