Re: NTFS design flaw?

From: Andrew Ofthesong (Andrew@NoSpam.net)
Date: 04/03/03


From: "Andrew Ofthesong" <Andrew@NoSpam.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:52:58 -0400


IMHO Is an extreme flaw not have a console like previous versons of DOS....

"Robert Jones" <robert@altalang.com> escribió en el mensaje
news:077701c2f97c$ed1fa450$3301280a@phx.gbl...
> You have a virus. The virus loads immediately AFTER the
> master boot record has been read. You can't go online.
> You can't access other boot modes because the virus has
> infected some key OS files.
>
> How do you remove it?
> What doesn't work:
> 1) boot floppy (after reading the boot record on the
> floppy, the system must access the HD drive to load the
> OS, and thus loads the virus)
> 2) Windows XP CD (The recovery console is useless unless
> you know exactly which file(s) have been infected.
> 3) You can't go online.
> 4) Virus scans won't load because of virus
> countermeasures.
> 5) Boot CDs from Norton and others can't access NTFS
> partitions.
> 6) Reinstalling the XP will erases user settings and
> deletes the contents of My Documents (according to the XP
> setup screen)
>
> Is the only option to Repair the OS?
>
> Under Win95 and Win98 this was an easy problem to solve,
> but now???



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