Re: Boot Sector Viruses

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 10/04/04


Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:23:17 -0500

XP System Restore will simply "resotre" the virus after you remove it
sometimes. So System Restore has to be turned off,...remove the Virus,
renable System Restore.

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
"Dshort" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2b0101c4a8ae$bf7ad2d0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Does anyone know of a virus scanner that will run during
> the boot process?  I have several extremely complex
> infections where files will either disappear when they're
> scanned by my virus scanner or they will simply reappear
> after a certain amount of time after I use a scanner and
> get rid of them.  I believe this is due to something that
> loaded itslef into the ram during startup, but I don't
> have any way to check for it.  I thought that AVG did, but
> I can't seem to find any mention of an on boot scanner.
> Any advice here would be appreciated.


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