Hope someone can help. I was told that my MBR was infected by a virus and that I needed to Debug it. I have reinstalled Win XP (Home Ed) and the problem is still there. I can't goto any websites. I had Norton and the virus disable that so I cant even goto the website to reinstall it. How do I fix my boot sectors or MBR?
MBR Virus
- Thread starter Lschaser
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Insert a start up disk in the floppy drive. When it boots to the A:\> prompt give this command:
After the installer loads choose repair option and run Recovery Console.
You'll need your administrators password. If you never set one them just logon without a password.
Once in the recover console give this command:
From the sound of things I doubt the problem is caused by a mbr virus. I haven't seen a boot sector virus in years. More than likely you were hit by something else.
Remove the floppy and reboot. If that doesn fix the problem then put the XP disk in the cd drive and restart.
After the installer loads choose repair option and run Recovery Console.
You'll need your administrators password. If you never set one them just logon without a password.
Once in the recover console give this command:
Remove the CD and shutdown completely. Restart and see if it fixes the problem.
From the sound of things I doubt the problem is caused by a mbr virus. I haven't seen a boot sector virus in years. More than likely you were hit by something else.
