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| Guest | Re: Removing RootKits "Karl Levinson, mvp" <levinson_k@securityadmin.info> wrote in message news:4A06D8AA-A00D-449B-9518-090A0E68DBCA@microsoft.com... > Most root kits in use nowadays have little to nothing to do with the MBR. > In old days, some people suggested running FDISK /MBR was recommended as a > virus removal method, but antivirus experts said this was a bad idea, and > I > still agree. Why did they say it is a bad idea and why do you agree? |
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| Guest | Re: Removing RootKits "May" <May.J.Court@Blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23yGGW2x3HHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >What ever replaced the ‘Fdisk /MBR’ command? > > May fixboot and fixmbr http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058 |
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| Guest | Re: Removing RootKits Crazy Many of the old XP Recovery Console commands have been changed in Vista. The following website has these changes documented. Windows RE Notes : Where are recovery console commands?: http://blogs.msdn.com/winre/archive/...-commands.aspx -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "Crazy Noddy" <SPAM@BLOCKER.ACTIVE> wrote in message news:BUGwi.218652$ss3.90690@fe01.news.easynews.com... > "May" <May.J.Court@Blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message > news:%23yGGW2x3HHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>What ever replaced the ‘Fdisk /MBR’ command? >> >> May > > > fixboot and fixmbr > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058 |
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| Guest | Re: Removing RootKits "Ronnie Vernon MVP" <rv@invalid.org> wrote in message news:OPZngd43HHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Crazy > > Many of the old XP Recovery Console commands have been changed in Vista. > The following website has these changes documented. > > Windows RE Notes : Where are recovery console commands?: > http://blogs.msdn.com/winre/archive/...-commands.aspx > > > -- > > Ronnie Vernon > Microsoft MVP > Windows Shell/User Ok, thanks. And it is "Crazy Noddy" and not just "Crazy". ![]() |
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| Guest | Re: Removing RootKits 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 |
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