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Wyx boot sector virus

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Name: sandy
Date: May 1, 2001 at 13:20:49 Pacific
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i am currently facing problem in removing the WYX boot sector virus form my primary domain controller (NT 4)
pl help me to remove the same



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Response Number 1
Name: Dr. Zhivago
Date: May 5, 2001 at 02:49:56 Pacific
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Follow this thread. There might be something there that's useful to you:

http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/4934.html


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Response Number 2
Name: HarryCoomar
Date: May 8, 2001 at 21:42:24 Pacific
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If you have McAfee/Network Associates antivirus, follow their instructions reproduced below.

Windows NT/2000:
Shut down the PC and turn the power off. Obtain or create a virus free boot disk and scan disk. After booting, at the A:\ prompt, execute the following command:
BOOTSCAN C: /boot /clean

Once the virus has been removed, remove all floppy diskettes from the computer and reboot from the hard drive.

This will also clean an NTFS Master Boot Record and allow Windows NT to successfully reboot from the hard disk drive. VirusScan for DOS will not be able to read the rest of the NTFS partition. After starting Windows, execute VirusScan or NetShield to detect and clean Windows NT file infections which may exist.

Hope it helps.



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Response Number 3
Name: sandy
Date: May 9, 2001 at 10:50:43 Pacific
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Hi HarryCoomar,

Thanks i tried the above option but it doesnot work....

what i can do more???????????????


sandy


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Response Number 4
Name: andrew
Date: June 28, 2001 at 17:13:27 Pacific
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I have the wyx, tried the mcafee solution and it didnt work, anyone out there that could help us it would be appreciated
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Response Number 5
Name: santosh
Date: June 30, 2001 at 03:04:25 Pacific
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i have wyx virus on my pc. when i boot my machine during loading memmory it shows various ascii charactors .and when i try to boot my machine from floopy my machine does not go on floopy drive pl help me to remove virus and recover my data


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Response Number 6
Name: srinath
Date: July 11, 2001 at 04:44:05 Pacific
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i have wyx virus in my pc,when i checked all my floppies are corupted,i have antivirus
mcafee but it is not cleaning boot sector of c:\.help me to recover my data.


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Response Number 7
Name: Bersheela
Date: July 12, 2001 at 11:01:19 Pacific
Reply:

my computer is affected with Wyx boot sector virus.

Can you please help me to download an antivirus which will clean this virus.

I have Mcafee Antivirus, but it cannot clean Wyx virus.

Can you please help me urgently.

Thanks.


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Response Number 8
Name: Ajay Jamwal
Date: July 18, 2001 at 10:02:28 Pacific
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Dear Sir,
My boot sector of hard disk get infected by wyx virus.I tried to remove virus using McAfee emergency disk but it didn't helped any. Kindly suggest as i am not able to boot my WIN2000 system.
Thanking you.
Sincerely.
Ajay


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Response Number 9
Name: Deepak Daryani
Date: July 22, 2001 at 02:21:10 Pacific
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Dear Sir,
My boot sector is infected by Wyx virus. I tried to clean it with mcafee. But mcafee just showed a virus, but fail to remove it. I'm having win98 installed on my system.
Please give me a solution soon about what to do to remove Wyx virus.


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Response Number 10
Name: subramani hariharan
Date: July 22, 2001 at 05:44:37 Pacific
Reply:

I have tried remove this virus with mcafe virus screening software but the virus is still persisting in the hard disc. how can i get it removed?


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Response Number 11
Name: Sufyan Ahmed
Date: July 23, 2001 at 00:16:56 Pacific
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I have NT4.0 PDC server. It is attacked by Eek(b) boot virus. Please help me to remove this virus from Master Boot Record.


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Response Number 12
Name: Enal Norden
Date: July 23, 2001 at 05:58:03 Pacific
Reply:

Infected my startup disk.
Try AVG antivirus (www.grisoft.com).
So far it works.


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