Alun Harford

cyranodesade wrote:
> All,
> I hope this is a simple question does Formatting a Hard Drive and then
> FDisk /MBR remove any rootkits or hidden files on a hard drive??
> If the answer is no then could you please point me to a good resource
> for formatting the boot sector/MBR? Thanks in advance. - CES

Yes, it'll remove the rootkit - IF the rootkit lets you format the
drive. There would be nothing to stop somebody from writing a rootkit
that just made it look like the drive had been formatted.

You could delete and recreate the partition when you're booted from CD
(eg. installing Windows)

Alun Harford