Re: virus in boot sector?

From: Phil Weldon (notdisclosed_at_example.com)
Date: 05/23/04 

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 21:54:59 GMT

All that enabling "virus protection" in the BIOS does is prevent writes to
the Boot Sector of the booting hard drive. If all you get is a blue screen
when Boot Sector protection is turned OFF in the BIOS, it doesn't seem a
very hardy virus, since the system never gets fully started, so the virus
cannot spread nor get a chance to use the full resourse of the operating
system. Perhaps you have corruption on your hard drive?

Some other questions:

Can you use the repair console?

Can you enable boot logging?

Can you start up successfully in Safe mode?

Is Windows XP your only operating system and NTFS your only file system on
the computer? 

-- 
Phil Weldon, pweldonatmindjumpdotcom
For communication,
replace "at" with the 'at sign'
replace "mindjump" with "mindspring."
replace "dot" with "."
"Yann" <ec932@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uhtSAhQQEHA.2468@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hey all!
>
>     I'll make this short, but last week I booted up  my desktop. It got to
> the win XP splash screen then a blue screen comes up and reboots the
> computer over and over ( don't even have time to read the first word of
blue
> screen before it disappears and reboots) .  I enabled the anti-virus in
the
> bios and now every time I boot or go look into the fdisk I get the
following
> msg:
> BOOT SECTOR WRITE!
> Virus: Continue (y/n)?
>
>     Now how can I fix this? I got Norton emergency disk but found noting (
> don't think the dat file are updated ) , I have MacAfee virusScan pro, but
> can't figure out how to make emergency disk. And even if I did, would the
> dat file be updated not like Norton? If anyone knows any solution please
let
> me know...thanks!
>
> PS: It does the same thing even when trying to boot up in safe mode.
>
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Missing user in windows explorer. Virus?
    ... this is not a Windows problem at all nor is it a boot sector problem. ... said BIOS instead of boot sector, ... that this is a virus, it could be but I think it's unlikely to be a CMOS ... the file I wanted to print through windows explorer, but the Mike user ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Virus in boot sector?
    ... > BOOT SECTOR WRITE! ... The "Anti virus" in the bios of your computer is, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: BSOD possible Virus Issue
    ... > I am using Windows 2000 on serveral older machines. ... From all appearances the boot sector is corrupted. ... > Norton Antivirus is unable to find any boot sector or other virus. ... > (server 2000) that has two RAID disks I can see on the XP machine ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: Boot Sector Virus help
    ... Virus: continue? ... There is a Boot Sector Write Protect enabled in the BIOS. ...
    (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
  • Re: Does the BIOS Virus Protection & Win XP really help?
    ... Chipset with Award BIOS dated November 2004). ... My software virus protection ... I have have the Boot Sector Virus Protection inside my ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)