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| Thread ID: 78093 | 2007-04-02 20:52:00 | Removing ANTICMOS.A virus | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 537851 | 2007-04-02 20:52:00 | Does anyone know of a safe way to remove this virus? I found it yesterday when doing some work on a friend's computer. I have seen some references to using FDISK /mbr and also using FIXMBR from the recovery console, but there is also a MS KB article that advises against that approach. Some of the Anti-virus websites (e.g. Symantec) talk about using a rescue disk. Unfortunately we don't have one. We also don't have any commercial anti-virus software (at present) - we are hoping to rely on AVG. It seems like the risk of damage from ANTICMOS.A is quite small, but still... |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 537852 | 2007-04-02 21:21:00 | Try the free online virus scanner called House Call. It is pretty good. Has fixed problems for me. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 537853 | 2007-04-02 21:23:00 | Did you try just running the AV on it? If it needs to be removed without the O/S loaded, I'd take the drive out and hook it up to another PC and then run your AV. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 537854 | 2007-04-02 21:51:00 | Did you try just running the AV on it?It was AVG that first picked it up, but didn't give an option to remove it (unless I am missing something). | Tony (4941) | ||
| 537855 | 2007-04-02 21:54:00 | Try the free online virus scanner called House Call.Thanks Trevor, I'll give that a go when I'm next at my friend's place - she wouldn't be confident to try it by herself. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 537856 | 2007-04-02 22:05:00 | I would still do the fdisk /mbr thing, as stated on the Symantec site . And make a system floppy and write protect it . Just going to sites, to do a scan, you maybe there all year trying to remove it . MS may say not to do the above, but theyre not exactly AV experts . Does AVG let u make a bootable disk, like what Symantec can do? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 537857 | 2007-04-03 21:10:00 | I would never trust a compromised machine for online banking or shopping again once I knew it had been compromised. A full OS reinstall or a thorough integrity check from a different operating system (e.g. a live CD with the hashes of all system applications) would be the only way I would clear it for secure use. Call me paranoid but in a world where most computers have spyware installed it isn't smart to take risks. | TGoddard (7263) | ||
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