repeat: Boort malmo virus

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Bakema

Hi,

Sorry to repeat this question, but I did not get any
reaction to it last week:

How do I get rid of an annoying dialogue box during WXP
startup warning me of the Boot malmo virus. I have been
made to understand that it actually not signifies a real
virus, and indeed it does not seem to affect my computers
at all. The virus does not exist in the virus databases
of McAfee and Norton, and no repair tools seem to be
available.

Anybody any ideas?

Bakema
 
Bakema said:
Hi,

Sorry to repeat this question, but I did not get any
reaction to it last week:

How do I get rid of an annoying dialogue box during WXP
startup warning me of the Boot malmo virus. I have been
made to understand that it actually not signifies a real
virus, and indeed it does not seem to affect my computers
at all. The virus does not exist in the virus databases
of McAfee and Norton, and no repair tools seem to be
available.

Anybody any ideas?

Bakema
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http://www.nibbleguru.com/probs/100/46
http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/tips/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=30518&subsectionid=616

Removal looks like (win 95&98)
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/junkie.html

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_653.htm
 
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:26:14 -0700, "Bakema"
How do I get rid of an annoying dialogue box during WXP
startup warning me of the Boot malmo virus. I have been
made to understand that it actually not signifies a real virus,
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On what basis were you "made to understand" this?
and indeed it does not seem to affect my computers
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Viruses are written to hide (until payload time). So "not affecting
your computers at all" could simply testify to success there.
The virus does not exist in the virus databases of McAfee and Norton
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Those are Windows-based av, i.e. hosted in the ?infected OS. So
whatever they say is merely amusing, not exclusionary.
Anybody any ideas?
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It is unlikely that a pre-filesystem boot virus would run under NT;
it's probably more likely than NT would throw up a false warning for
no reason. Nonetheless I'd want to formally exclude that possibility.

Use whatever maintenance OS your system supports, to formally scan all
files on the HD for active traditrional malware (viruses, worms etc.).

See http://cquirke.mvps.org/whatmos.htm

Because pre-file-system viruses exist before the file system does, you
can use a DOS-based av to scan and manage these, even if the file
system is NTFS. Do that as well; see...

http://cquirke.mvps.org/virtest.htm

....and finally, thanks for not saying "I know I don't have a virus
because I scanned using an online virus scanning site" ;-)


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