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How susceptible to the root virus Mebroot is Vista?

I cannot believe in this day and age that an antivirus

program would allow writing to the MBR without warning.



It is my understanding that no AV Program (I am using

OneCare) protects.



Suggestions and recommendations appreciated.



Thanks


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From: "GeraldF" <me@somewhere.com>



| How susceptible to the root virus Mebroot is Vista?

| I cannot believe in this day and age that an antivirus

| program would allow writing to the MBR without warning.

|

| It is my understanding that no AV Program (I am using

| OneCare) protects.

|

| Suggestions and recommendations appreciated.

|

| Thanks



Mebroot is a Trojan, not a virus and you mean RootKit.



If you have an active anti virus application, that has signatures for the Trojan Mebroot,

performing "On Access" scanning then you will not be rooted with this Trojan RootKit that

overwrite areas of the Master Boot Record.



OneCare may detect Mebroot and it may not. OneCare is NOT good to begin with. You want a

better AV solution such as NOD32 or Kaspersky if you are really worried.





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Dave

www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html" >www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

Multi-AV - www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp" >www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp





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In article <eaJBLJZVIHA.2000@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,

DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net says...

How is it possible that any antivirus program allows

access "On Access" to the MBR?



From your post the implication is that OneCare does not

have this capability (elementary dear Watson!)



thanks

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In article <eaJBLJZVIHA.2000@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,

DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net says...

PC Magazine review suggests BitDefender is better than

Kasperky because of registry startup protection. Any

comment?



thanks

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From: "GeraldF" <me@somewhere.com>





| How is it possible that any antivirus program allows

| access "On Access" to the MBR?

|

| From your post the implication is that OneCare does not

| have this capability (elementary dear Watson!)

|

| thanks



Many legit. programs can modify the MBR.



Kaspersky is better the BitDefender albeit BitDefender is very good.



I haven't trusted information from PC Mag in years. This comes from somebody who had an

article published in PC Mag in May '88.



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Dave

www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html" >www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html

Multi-AV - www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp" >www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp





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In article <ekzPdjZVIHA.5508@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,

DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net says...

Thanks



It is amazing what you learn when you have insider

information. Back in the late 70's we learned about Mike

Wallace and 60 minutes. A special on "Ghost Surgery" was

so stressful, one of the nurses involved died of a heart

attack after it aired, and he called CBS to complain

that the information was deliberatly falsified . Ratings

mattered more than the truth. I've never watched since.









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