Virus Removal

[Tritonj]

My brother, who had no virus protection or firewall was
infected with several viruses. I was able to eliminate
all of them usin McAfee except one which showed as
follows: C: NYB As you can see there is
no subdirectory. When I checked this out on McAfee it
said we need a boot disc and a scan disc. Is ther any
easy way to get rid of this? Say for example can I use
the restor CD that came with the computer and say even
reformat and restore it to origonal state? Or is there
another way?

 

[David H. Lipman]

There are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of discussion.

microsoft.public.scripting.virus.discussion
microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus

Go to Invircible and download Zvi Netiv's IVINIT utility --
http://www.invircible.com/iv_tools.php#Ivinit

NYB is an *OLD* Boot Sector infector.

Dave





| My brother, who had no virus protection or firewall was
| infected with several viruses. I was able to eliminate
| all of them usin McAfee except one which showed as
| follows: C: NYB As you can see there is
| no subdirectory. When I checked this out on McAfee it
| said we need a boot disc and a scan disc. Is ther any
| easy way to get rid of this? Say for example can I use
| the restor CD that came with the computer and say even
| reformat and restore it to origonal state? Or is there
| another way?

 

[Guest]

did you try downloading and running stinger?
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/?id=stinger

also, I hope you gave your brother a long lecture about computer security and what he did wrong!!!!

 

[David H. Lipman]

Stinger will NOT remove *any* Boot Sector Infectors.

Stinger targets ~43 infectors, mostly worms and a couple of Trojans. If you bothered to
READ the URL contents you've posted you would have seen the ~43 infectors that Stinger
specifically covers.

It is for THIS type of response that I posted the following News Groups for this type of
discussion!

microsoft.public.scripting.virus.discussion
microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus

Dave





| did you try downloading and running stinger?
| http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/?id=stinger
|
| also, I hope you gave your brother a long lecture about computer security and what he did
wrong!!!!
|
| "Tritonj" wrote:
|
| > My brother, who had no virus protection or firewall was
| > infected with several viruses. I was able to eliminate
| > all of them usin McAfee except one which showed as
| > follows: C: NYB As you can see there is
| > no subdirectory. When I checked this out on McAfee it
| > said we need a boot disc and a scan disc. Is ther any
| > easy way to get rid of this? Say for example can I use
| > the restor CD that came with the computer and say even
| > reformat and restore it to origonal state? Or is there
| > another way?
| >

 

[Guest]

Tritonj,

fdisk /mbr
See here for more info:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/nyb.html

Good Luck!