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Default OT But important if you do any online banking
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:32:58 -0000, wrote:

A nasty little virus that installs in the MBR and steals banking login
details is starting to make it's way around. Because it's in the MBR,
anti-virus software can only alert you to it's presence, but can't remove
it.

Why?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7183008.stm

According to Symantec, running "fixmbr" command from within the Windows
Recovery Console will remove the virus, but to prevent infection, if your
BIOS has a MBR write-protection feature now is a good time to enable it.

What is a Windows Recovery Console?


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058
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