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 NetFixerFrom my cold dead handsPremium
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Re: a reformat clears the mbr right said by dave:said by n00blet1 :Then i am thinking, what if this rootkit spreads itself to the files on the os? Where will this rootkit come from, if you've wiped the MBR and reformatted all partitions? It's gone. It that particular post, I think the OP was implying that the infected system is still in use, so that there would exist the possibility that any drivers, ISO images, etc that were downloaded (and probably saved to CD/DVD) prior to the drive cleansing would also become infected.
Apparently (based on another post) the OP does not have a known good OS CD/DVD from which to boot and reinstall the OS.
unfortunately the pc came with a Counterfeit version of windows 7....
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kudos:8 | said by NetFixer: I think the OP was implying that the infected system is still in use, so that there would exist the possibility that any drivers, ISO images, etc that were downloaded (and probably saved to CD/DVD) prior to the drive cleansing would also become infected. Ah, gotcha, thanks. Yes, that is an unfortunate possibility. | |
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