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Help required!!! at the moment i am using a windows 98 machine. It appears that the master boot sector has been modified when a virus scan was done it detected the sampu virus which originates from the philipenes. The symtoms apart from passing on the virus on floppies,is that i have lost all my cd rom connections and also the zip drive does not get detected. what way can i backup my data first to start a complete rebuild. are there any scanners that can deal with this virus?
Name: Blazer Date: April 25, 2001 at 03:53:17 Pacific
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Thats S A M P O ............
The Sampo virus is capable of infecting the MBR of a hard drive or the boot record of a floppy disk. When a boot record infected with this specific virus is loaded, it replicates to other boot sectors by using INT 13. When a user initiates a soft-boot on his system, the virus intercepts this interrupt call, and does its own performance of a computer rebooting. The purpose of this action is to enable the virus to remain in memory while giving customers the notion that they are able to reboot successfully.
Summary: There are a few AV programs that explicitly search for boot sector viruses (usually in the full purchase edition). If the AV can fix it, thank your lucky stars.. more likely, you need a CLEAN startup...
Summary: EZbios also alters you master boot record, of at least the first hard drive, and this can be detected by an unaware (dumb, stupid) anti-virus utility or bios activated anti-virus as a boot sector viru...
Summary: Can you supply a bit more information? What are the symptoms of the virus - you mention boot sector but these are more rare so what makes you think this is the problem (remembering that each drive wil...
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kernel386,exe
