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Trojan in master boot record, please help

zonedogg

how do I make a bootable flash drive so i can clean the boot record, something the computer will run before it reads the hard drive, I really dont want to reformatt and re-install windows to deal with this. zonedogg@verizon.net

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    How does one tell if they have a trojan in the mbr?

    I recently got the "Security Tools" virus.  I stopped the random number processes via Task Manager, deleted all the random number folders, etc I could find, searched the registry, and tried to run Sophos. 

    Sophos only ran to 2% and always stopped on D:\System Volume Information\...\*., despite leaving it running for 36 hours. I ran "Spybot" and got rid of everything it detected, uninstalled Sophos, restarted the computer, downloaded a fresh copy of Sophos, did a clean install, and scanned again.  Still only running to 2% and still hanging up around the same location.

    Sophos insists that I talk to the UC tec support people, who say either reinstall the OS (which I really, really, really don't want to go through) or pay them $75 an hour. 

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

    p.s. thinking of trying the 'fixmbr' command, but how do I find the device name?  map is not recognized in a command prompt.

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    How does one tell if they have a trojan in the mbr?

    I recently got the "Security Tools" virus.  I stopped the random number processes via Task Manager, deleted all the random number folders, etc I could find, searched the registry, and tried to run Sophos. 

    Sophos only ran to 2% and always stopped on D:\System Volume Information\...\*., despite leaving it running for 36 hours. I ran "Spybot" and got rid of everything it detected, uninstalled Sophos, restarted the computer, downloaded a fresh copy of Sophos, did a clean install, and scanned again.  Still only running to 2% and still hanging up around the same location.

    Sophos insists that I talk to the UC tec support people, who say either reinstall the OS (which I really, really, really don't want to go through) or pay them $75 an hour. 

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

    p.s. thinking of trying the 'fixmbr' command, but how do I find the device name?  map is not recognized in a command prompt.

    :6191
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