I have VIRUS in MBR, as a result of windows. All my computers are now UBUNTU 10.10
How to wipe this hard drive clean like new, formated #4 linux when finished.W/D 500 GB
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If it's an MBR virus, you might not have to reinstall the OS.
First, try booting to a live CD and formatting the MBR. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-query-606489/ Then, if necessary, repair grub: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...tallingWindows If you still have to reinstall, the MBR will now be clean. |
Just boot to a LiveCD and use gparted to format the drive.
If that sounds too tough just install Ubuntu using the whole disk option. I would format the drive ahead of installation myself. An install with a / partition, a /home partition and then your small /swap is, in my view, a lot better than installing on just a / (root0 partition. I have never heard of virus on the MBR and can't imagine why anyone would write one, not that I am an expert on virus'. |
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc977223.aspx or if you prefer not to access a Microsoft domain http://google.com/search?q=mbr+virus BTW papaabert, Please consider making two copies of your important files on different media before wiping the hard disk. Nothing sucks more than losing all your data because of a lousy virus :( |
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Think that would have a hard time on a Linux box unless you had auto login as root. I do not mind going to MS sites, the Dreaded Mother in Law has a MS box that I try to keep up. It will get infected one of these days as she will not have much security on the bugger. I do have it booting with grub from an install of Ubuntu 8.04 (have to change that one of these days) that I have all her stuff backed up on. That is in her house. You guys would be welcome if you are passing through these parts but any device using an MS OS will not come in this house. You can leave them across the street at her house. EDIT; Just read that link. It seems to indicate just destruction of the OS. Seems like there are more opportunitiesthere than that. That is also about MS 2000 so I suppose the virus' are better now. I quit with Win98. I still think that was the cream of their crop. MS Dos with DosShell was my favorite of the MS stable. Amazing the work you can do with floppies and a 64 bit computer. |
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I wonder why that vector for attack is not used more often. Seems kind of slick in a very sick way.
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One thing the bad guys take into account is how easy it is to accomplish their purpose.
MBR viruses used to be extremely common 15 or 20 years ago, when the purpose of viruses was primarly vandalism, as opposed to stealing information and setting up botnets. They were spread easily through the boot sectors of floppy disks, since a lot of data was transferred via sneakernet. MS Word macro viruses were also popular back in those days as MS Word beat out Word Perfect by virtue of the Microsoft Marketing Mauling Machine. Then, with the increase in personal email and the www, came email payloads, phishing, and trojans. Attacking the MBR via an email trojan would be a mightily difficult thing to do reliably. Even the famous Sony rootkit was delivered by physical media inserted in a drive. |
Thanks for the help
I found a program among many and created a live disk.Nuked, burned, blasted erased wiped cust the MBR virus . I won. I burned alot of 000000000000000 in the MBR and destroyed the binary what fowled my drive. Again thanks for the ideas. I am still very new to Linux
lost but not forgot. I know so little about Linux , don't even know what to ask?? |
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I know this for a fact as I was lucky enough to discover it when I started. Still keep it bookmarked to point other folks to it. |
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