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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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    Hi,

    No, partitions just become additional drives on the new machine. I'd suggest using a usb adapter rather than a case since it'll be cheaper and more useful in future for checking any other units. Usually only cost around £10-£15 and readily available from e.g. Amazon. Not sure what country you're in so difficult to suggest where to buy.

    Alternatively, I use a second AV product for sub-scanning. Spy-Bot to me is too verbose and wastes to much time involving itself in unecessary areas. A better tool I would suggest is the free version of prevx www.prevx.com. Download it (it's tiny!), install and run it. The free version won't fix much, but will give you in depth analysis of what's found and where it found it very quickly. Using a DOS prompt, you can rename running dll's or sys files and then reboot and delete. Once done, you maybe able to then run a full Sophos sweep. I'd still advise slaving the drive and running a full Sophos scan anyway when you've the ability to do so but Prevx might get you out of a hole quickly.

    Matt

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    Hi,

    No, partitions just become additional drives on the new machine. I'd suggest using a usb adapter rather than a case since it'll be cheaper and more useful in future for checking any other units. Usually only cost around £10-£15 and readily available from e.g. Amazon. Not sure what country you're in so difficult to suggest where to buy.

    Alternatively, I use a second AV product for sub-scanning. Spy-Bot to me is too verbose and wastes to much time involving itself in unecessary areas. A better tool I would suggest is the free version of prevx www.prevx.com. Download it (it's tiny!), install and run it. The free version won't fix much, but will give you in depth analysis of what's found and where it found it very quickly. Using a DOS prompt, you can rename running dll's or sys files and then reboot and delete. Once done, you maybe able to then run a full Sophos sweep. I'd still advise slaving the drive and running a full Sophos scan anyway when you've the ability to do so but Prevx might get you out of a hole quickly.

    Matt

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