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| Thread ID: 42756 | 2004-02-21 19:07:00 | fat virus | troubledone (5293) | Press F1 |
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| 217216 | 2004-02-21 19:07:00 | Please help I found rapid blaster on my pc and attempted to remove it? It appears that my fat has been altered and windows will not run after reloading. When running fdisk on the active partiton c of my hard drive the operation halts at 37% and then reruns twice. Is this due to a virus program reloading itself and recorrupting my fat? Is it possible to locate and remove this program if there is one. Any advise wellcome. Thanks Mark |
troubledone (5293) | ||
| 217217 | 2004-02-21 19:22:00 | rapid blaster is spyware not a virus ........anyway if you have aboot virus well the thing to do is to boot with a floppy (win98) and tyep in 'fdisk /mbr' that'll get rid of it........what operating system you got ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 217218 | 2004-02-21 23:08:00 | and what anti-virus are you running. Also, you are running by the sound of it Scandisk, not fdisk. Try it in safe mode as anti-virus and other programs can interfere. These dont start up in safe mode. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 217219 | 2004-02-22 00:20:00 | You shouldnt try to remove rapidblaster manually. Go here www.wilderssecurity.net and get RapidBlaster Killer 1.61. This will remove all traces of it. |
AL... (5272) | ||
| 217220 | 2004-02-22 01:09:00 | fdisk /mbr won't fix a FAT or partition table. It can't. It mustn't. It can restore the bootstrap code in that sector if it has been damaged, or you have a"boot sector virus". Any FAT damage is usually a real problem. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 217221 | 2004-02-22 01:49:00 | yeh ooops that what I meant...........fdisk /mbr will remove any boot sector virus | drcspy (146) | ||
| 217222 | 2004-02-22 23:46:00 | By using a backup machine I managed to download disksecure 2 which writes its own fat to the mbr and prevents any virus from activating. This has given me back control of my machine. However I would like to rid myself of the virus completely. When I attempted to use Fdisk on c partition it would hang at 37% and again at 49 % complete then rerun twice from zero. I presume that this was the virus replicating itself on the new partition. Both copy 1 and copy 2 of fat are corrupted. Will fdisk /mbr rewrite a clean new virus free mbr/fat sector? |
troubledone (5293) | ||
| 217223 | 2004-02-23 01:24:00 | yep | drcspy (146) | ||
| 217224 | 2004-02-23 03:16:00 | Only if you boot from a clean disk. If the boot sector is corrupted, various other useful files will have been corrupted too. I'd not trust FDISK on that hard disk. ;-) You must use a known good boot floppy, or a MS OS installation CD. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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