Hi Guys....
I've been given a computer to fix from a mate.
The problem as was given to me was that the screen would just stay black after the boot up sequence. No windows loading screen. Sure enough that was how it was when i got it.
Took the hard drive out and put it into my computer as an external drive and as soon as the computer picked it up the Microsoft Security Essentials picks up that its got this TrojanOS/Alureon.A Virus which infects the Master Boot Record. As soon as it picks up the virus, the virus kicks in and then makes the Harddrive unreadable by the computer. I can watch it pop-up in my computer, then watch microsoft security essentials pop-up and then the drives dissapear.
Because it makes the drive dissapear it cant get rid of it quick enough and then i also cant run any other programs on it as in malwarebytes or AVG through a different computer.
Ive even tried running a chkdsk through a XP recovery console but it just says that the disk is corrupted and unreadable and says the same when trying through a BartPE Disk as well.
Sometimes it will come up with do you want to format the drive and then dissapears, a couple of times its actually shown the content sizes of the drive and then dissapeared.
Anybody know how to get rid of this Virus from the BootSector?!?
Thanks
Luke
I've been given a computer to fix from a mate.
The problem as was given to me was that the screen would just stay black after the boot up sequence. No windows loading screen. Sure enough that was how it was when i got it.
Took the hard drive out and put it into my computer as an external drive and as soon as the computer picked it up the Microsoft Security Essentials picks up that its got this TrojanOS/Alureon.A Virus which infects the Master Boot Record. As soon as it picks up the virus, the virus kicks in and then makes the Harddrive unreadable by the computer. I can watch it pop-up in my computer, then watch microsoft security essentials pop-up and then the drives dissapear.
Because it makes the drive dissapear it cant get rid of it quick enough and then i also cant run any other programs on it as in malwarebytes or AVG through a different computer.
Ive even tried running a chkdsk through a XP recovery console but it just says that the disk is corrupted and unreadable and says the same when trying through a BartPE Disk as well.
Sometimes it will come up with do you want to format the drive and then dissapears, a couple of times its actually shown the content sizes of the drive and then dissapeared.
Anybody know how to get rid of this Virus from the BootSector?!?
Thanks
Luke