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Trojan in master boot record, please help

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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  • Hello Matt,

    remsav usually has a version number. Last I saw was 3.0.x I think.

    Right, a rootkit might prevent a successful scan - but I wouldn't bet that an "alternate" scanner might not also get subverted. So it's probably better to either slave the disk or use a LiveCD.

    Christian

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  • Hello Matt,

    remsav usually has a version number. Last I saw was 3.0.x I think.

    Right, a rootkit might prevent a successful scan - but I wouldn't bet that an "alternate" scanner might not also get subverted. So it's probably better to either slave the disk or use a LiveCD.

    Christian

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