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  1. October 26th, 2003, 09:31 PM #1
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    What To do About MBR Virus

    Hey Gang,

    I just ran the AVG quick test and found the attached screenshot record of a mbr virus.

    If I click KEEP I still get the warning AND if I click CONFIRM CHANGES I still get the warning.

    Assuming that I have a virus that my AVG AV won't get rid of, how do I replace and/or fix the MBR?

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  2. October 26th, 2003, 11:15 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Orangeman
    Hey Gang,

    I just ran the AVG quick test and found the attached screenshot record of a mbr virus.

    If I click KEEP I still get the warning AND if I click CONFIRM CHANGES I still get the warning.

    Assuming that I have a virus that my AVG AV won't get rid of, how do I replace and/or fix the MBR?[IMG] http://www.members.aol.com/jpb701/mbr[/IMG]

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    Orangeman
    Sorry man, I don't click NUTTIN' that ends in AOL.com.......
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  3. October 26th, 2003, 11:24 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by DocPC
    Sorry man, I don't click NUTTIN' that ends in AOL.com.......
    ....nuttin' except bother to bother me...
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  4. October 27th, 2003, 01:50 AM #4
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    fdisk /mbr I've never seen it blow away a system but it could happen though.
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  5. October 27th, 2003, 04:00 AM #5
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    I just heard from AVG. They said it was a cosmetic 'bug' in their system, not a virus. If it were, it would have listed the type.


    It is probably some software I installed that is causing the glitch.
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  6. October 28th, 2003, 11:17 AM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Orangeman

    It is probably some software I installed that is causing the glitch.
    No need daffy/orangeman:
    AVG already said it was THEIR software:
    I just heard from AVG. They said it was a cosmetic 'bug' in their system, not a virus. If it were, it would have listed the type.
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  7. October 28th, 2003, 12:22 PM #7
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    Regardless of source of the change to the master boot record, silencio has the best solution. Boot to a known unaffected boot disk with the fdisk program on it and issue the command fdisk /mbr and it will rewrite the system with a fresh MBR. This is unless you are running some sort of boot manager in your MBR and don't want it corrupted.
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