Is there such thing as Boot sector Virus & how do I remove it ?

mike2op · Sep 13, 2006

Hi,

Lately I have been downloading a lot of stuff & have caught some viruses.

I am going to Format my hard drive anyway but my concern from reading somewhere is that there might be some viruses left in boot sectors even after I format.

(1) Is my concern legitimate & is there such thing as boot sector virus ?

(2) If there is, then how do I find out after formatting ?

(3) And lastly how do I remove it ?

I have NOD32 Antivirus and Spyware doctor as well as Ad aware SE Pro Antispyware & Adware,

All comments will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Mike

DavidGP · Sep 13, 2006

Yes to Boot Sector Virus.

When formatting what you also need to do is to delete the Operating Systems partition as in C: then create the partition again, then format, this will delete the boot sector.

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