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OT But important if you do any online banking
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:55:01 +0000, 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? Don't get me lying, but I believe the virus is a rootkit, and is running all the while the OS is running. You could rewrite the MBR, but the running rootkit code would just rewrite itself. Or so I believe. The MBR has to be "fixed" while the OS is not running. 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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