Hard Drive Boot Virus-Removal

[NYHoustonman]

Or do I have to run a virus scan on it?

 

[L1FE]

i'd think since formatting wipes all data from a harddrive, formatting would be a safe option.

 

[Schadenfroh]

antivir scans the boot record everytime you start the main program

 

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
antivir scans the boot record everytime you start the main program

Schadenfroh is correct .... but let me add one thing to that. In windows ME or windows XP, you'll want to disable system restore because a copy of the virus is stored in the restore folder.

 

[BlueD0T]

i would do an debug to make sure that puppy is gone

 

[NYHoustonman]

It's on a new hard drive I sent to my brother, a 40GB WD. Sadly enough, I have to work with it over the phone, which is a pain in the ass. I had him reformat twice, install Windows XP, and run that antivirus program, and nothing. The BIOS still reports a boot virus whenever the damned thing is plugged in. I'm at a loss for ideas at this point... I don't want it to infect his primary hard drive, and I've done everything as mentioned, I don't know what in god's name I can do save for burning the thing in a fire, hoping that THAT at least wipes the virus out. For christ's sake, if erasing everything off the hard drive and doing a virus scan doesn't work, what in the hell will?

 

[NYHoustonman]

BUMP

Is it possible that the BIOS boot virus protection is just spazzing out or something?

 

[biostud]

I would think you could boot from a winXP CD, go to the recovery console and rewrite the Master Boot record (MBR)

 

[NYHoustonman]

Originally posted by: biostud666
I would think you could boot from a winXP CD, go to the recovery console and rewrite the Master Boot record (MBR)

What command would that be? I'll have him give it a try.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman

Originally posted by: biostud666
I would think you could boot from a winXP CD, go to the recovery console and rewrite the Master Boot record (MBR)

What command would that be? I'll have him give it a try.

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Try the FIXMBR and FIXBOOT

 

[NYHoustonman]

Thanks, I'll have him try it tomorrow (naturally, he's going to the movies now that I have a possible solution :\).