I know we are not famous for being Windoze fans but this info may be of use to you at some point. We have a number of computers infected with the boot.malmo virus aka Junkie. It sits in the boot sector of both the floppies and Hard drives and once it goes on the hard drive, it cannot be removed by any of the existing anti-virus software we have. The anti-virus just reports its existance and thats it. Nothing more. In case you come across an infection, to get rid of it do the following. For Windoze 2000: 1) Shutdown the PC and restart it with the Windoze 2000 installation CD in the drive. 2) Go through all the steps of making an installation till you reach that point of selecting whether you want to make a new installation or repair an existing installation. 3) Select repair using the console. In the console screen select the installation you want to repair(in case you have more than 1) 4) Type "fixmbr" without the quotes. Windoze will give you all threats of what will happen in case you go ahead including the sky falling down on your head. Be brave and proceed. No sky falls down on your head. 5) After that, type exit and the machine will reboot. The infection will have gone. For Windoze XP: 1) Follow all the steps as above till step 3(of course with an XP installation CD) 2) In step 4, DON'T use "fixmbr"! The sky will indeed fall down on your head!! Messed up someone's machine thoroughly well and still haven't figured how to restore it to its former state(dual boot,knoppix-XP, any ideas??). Please use "fixboot" instead. Some warnings will appear but still do proceed. Things will be fine. 3) Go to step 5 above.
Yours ************************************************************************ Lule George William (Mr) Network and Systems Administrator Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi P.O. Box 5498 Kampala Uganda --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
