I have XP home ed on my laptop, running sp2 and all recent updates. I also

have McAfee Virus Scan. It is detecting an unwanted program, drive cleaner,

and cannot remove it. I next ran the scan in DOS. There are no virus

detected, but it shows a problem with the boot sector.

In reading McAfee hints, I followed the instruction to turn off System

Restore before running the DOS scan. Now I have learned how System Restore

works, because my first available restore date is the date I turned it back

on.

Can I rebuild my boot sector without doing a restore of XP? My disks are

all sp1, of course.

--

M. Kope

Boot to your sp1 setup cd, and press 'r' for the Recovery Console prompt. Run

the FIXMBR command

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"mkope" wrote:

> I have XP home ed on my laptop, running sp2 and all recent updates. I also

> have McAfee Virus Scan. It is detecting an unwanted program, drive cleaner,

> and cannot remove it. I next ran the scan in DOS. There are no virus

> detected, but it shows a problem with the boot sector.

> In reading McAfee hints, I followed the instruction to turn off System

> Restore before running the DOS scan. Now I have learned how System Restore

> works, because my first available restore date is the date I turned it back

> on.

> Can I rebuild my boot sector without doing a restore of XP? My disks are

> all sp1, of course.

> --

> M. Kope

If your boot sector were to be damaged on the system or boot partition

your computer would most likely not boot, so the alert from McAfee may

be somewhat specious. What exactly is the message from McAfee?

 

To restore or fix damages to the boot sector boot the computer to the

Recovery Console and issue the fixboot command on the affected drive.

For help in the Recovery Console type HELP. For help on any command

use the /? switch, example: fixboot /?

 

John

 

 

 

mkope wrote:

> I have XP home ed on my laptop, running sp2 and all recent updates. I also

> have McAfee Virus Scan. It is detecting an unwanted program, drive cleaner,

> and cannot remove it. I next ran the scan in DOS. There are no virus

> detected, but it shows a problem with the boot sector.

> In reading McAfee hints, I followed the instruction to turn off System

> Restore before running the DOS scan. Now I have learned how System Restore

> works, because my first available restore date is the date I turned it back

> on.

> Can I rebuild my boot sector without doing a restore of XP? My disks are

> all sp1, of course.

I ran FIXMBR with no problems. But my computer is running

very slow. I cannot access my court reporting software, with

a response referring to Windows sockets.

I am running the virus scan now. I opened task manager but

do not know enough about processes to recognize one that

should not be there. With just virus scan, it is working at

100 percent. I will check back here after it is finished.

Thanks for your quick response.

--

M. Kope

 

 

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> Boot to your sp1 setup cd, and press 'r' for the Recovery Console prompt. Run

> the FIXMBR command

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> Mark L. Ferguson

>

>

>

> "mkope" wrote:

>

> > I have XP home ed on my laptop, running sp2 and all recent updates. I also

> > have McAfee Virus Scan. It is detecting an unwanted program, drive cleaner,

> > and cannot remove it. I next ran the scan in DOS. There are no virus

> > detected, but it shows a problem with the boot sector.

> > In reading McAfee hints, I followed the instruction to turn off System

> > Restore before running the DOS scan. Now I have learned how System Restore

> > works, because my first available restore date is the date I turned it back

> > on.

> > Can I rebuild my boot sector without doing a restore of XP? My disks are

> > all sp1, of course.

> > --

> > M. Kope

"mkope" wrote:

> I have XP home ed on my laptop, running sp2 and all recent updates. I also

> have McAfee Virus Scan. It is detecting an unwanted program, drive cleaner,

> and cannot remove it. I next ran the scan in DOS. There are no virus

> detected, but it shows a problem with the boot sector.

> In reading McAfee hints, I followed the instruction to turn off System

> Restore before running the DOS scan. Now I have learned how System Restore

> works, because my first available restore date is the date I turned it back

> on.

> Can I rebuild my boot sector without doing a restore of XP? My disks are

> all sp1, of course.

> --

> M. Kope

 

 

 

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2006-062217-0726-99&tabid=3

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic71782.html

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=5914

You can perform these cleaning steps or go direct with the hijackThis log:

1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet

Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window

you will see these Options:

General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs

| Advanced .

 

Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called

[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on

[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [

Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.

 

= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your

browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:

Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable

the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one

later and see which is the culprit or you can send them here in your next

post) and click [OK] to confirm your Changes.

 

Click on Advanced Tab and scroll down under the browsing option and uncheck

this box:

[&] Browsing

[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) and click Apply

then OK to close your IE Properties.

 

2.... And also for malware from here:

http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

http://www.safer-networking.org ; for Spybot S&D

Download and install after installing this software and

update then run a scan in both safe mode and normal:

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5

= Open the Windows

Explorer and locate this path:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc = look in the Right Pane/window for this

file called the HOSTS file but not the one with the extension *.SAM* leave

this as is.

If you can't see it try to click Tools >> Folder Options and select show

Hidden files and folder, then right Click the Hosts file and select open with

Notepad.

There see any reference for that site and remove it, you Hosts file will

looks like this:

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # Source server

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # Client Host

127.0.0.1 LocalHost

------------------------------------------

Remove all other References other than those above.

 

Download the Hijackthis and send the report to one of

many

forums for analysis and troubleshooting:

When all else fails, HijackThis v1.99.1

(http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.zip) is the preferred tool to use.

It will help you to both identify and remove any hijackware/spyware. Post

your log to http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30,

http://castlecops.com/forum67.html,

http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7, or other appropriate

forums for expert analysis, not here.

Run disk Clean Up and Defrag in safe mode, then Open run command and type in:

sfc /scannow click [OK]

Note the space between sfc_/

HTH.

Let us know.

Regards,

nass

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http://www.nasstec.co.uk

get a better virus scan mcfee no good norton no good try avsta if u got virus

this will find

 

"mkope" wrote:

> I have XP home ed on my laptop, running sp2 and all recent updates. I also

> have McAfee Virus Scan. It is detecting an unwanted program, drive cleaner,

> and cannot remove it. I next ran the scan in DOS. There are no virus

> detected, but it shows a problem with the boot sector.

> In reading McAfee hints, I followed the instruction to turn off System

> Restore before running the DOS scan. Now I have learned how System Restore

> works, because my first available restore date is the date I turned it back

> on.

> Can I rebuild my boot sector without doing a restore of XP? My disks are

> all sp1, of course.

> --

> M. Kope