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fohfoh:
Ok, it's been a long run, but the last viruses I had were probably 4-5 years ago. Recently there's been funny noises from my computer and everything so, I go on the hunt. I find...

win32 meboot trojan on my computer.

Long story short, it's a motherfucker to get rid of since it's on the MBR.

So... do a little searching and it's a motherfucker to repair usually requiring up to 3 programs to deal with it.

Question. Do you think a vista disc to repair the MBR would temporarily work?

Now, I also have to try and figure out where it came from as well. AVG was full retard, Avira caught 3, Avast caught nothing (though I assume it would have caught the same shit as Avira) and it was finally Nod32 that picked up the last (and only I might add) one. No idea how I got it.

But the last one(trojan) is a motherfucker.

wolkec:
Nod32 and Norton are the Avs that actually work...

Soryon:
throw your computer in the trash and buy a new one, problem solved.
@ Wolkec; there are more then those 2 that really work well, however the 3 that fohfoh listed I had never been happy with. (aside from Nod32, I have no experience with that one)

fohfoh~ just a random stab in the dark, but have you tried with MS Security Essentials? Your running windows it seems, so that should be free for you to get.
also, are all your virus definitions up to date?
otherwise, some viruses you end up needing to remove in DoS or at startup, and can become a pain.

I know I am prolly saying things that would be obvious, but it seems every now and then its the obvious things that get looked over.

fohfoh:
That trojan has apparently infected the MBR or w/e it was called so is one big mofo to get rid of.

MSSE? I've heard of it, never really tried it. Might give it a nice roll and see. I'm still considering my options prior to a total reformat. Maybe I'll see which ones AVs are actually good. (I've had issues with nod32 in the past, but this time it was actually not bad)

jaybug:
It's nice to even hear that someone even knows nod32. It's saved me at home once this year. Wish we had it on work computer, because IT took over a week to fix it.

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