boot sector virus

[teet]

Do you guys know of a quick and easy way to get rid of a boot sector virus (a friend of mine is infected)? With all my virus experience, I have never encountered a boot sector virus.

Housecall reports the virus as "HAVOCAMSE-A.B"
Also I removed a BAGLE.N virus from his machine by using stinger.

Thanks.

-teet

[tucker]

http://search.symantec.com/custom/us/query.html

sector viruses themselves are a type of virus....i think

[Voetsjoeba]

Ouch, boot sector. Your best bet is to plug the HD into another comp and run diagnostics on it from that other comp. My MBR was damaged recently as well (hint: don't reset when quick switching users in WinXP), and I had to do it that way. I could rescue the most important data from it using the other comp and a specialised program, and when all the data was secured I rewrote the Master Boot Record. Risky, but it worked.

[tucker]

when i got the new sasser worm, my mom restarted the comp in the last configuration that worked and there was nothing wrong with it. Then i just dled the removal thing.