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Net V
March 16th, 2004, 06:32 AM
I'm just wondering, can the boot sector virus infect the NTFS file system ? cause I've heard that almost boot sector viruses are outdated.

And if it does, can we fix it with fdisk /mbr ?

Thanks

meneer
March 16th, 2004, 07:51 AM
Microsoft says it is not completely secure: check this article (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;122221)
As far as I can see, data on ntfs are far better secured than on FAT. If you start windows with ctrl-alt-del, any unauthorized process (your virus) will be killed, so there's a security measure you better take.

Cleaning: fdisk is not that bad, but you better use a cleaning tool.