System Reserved 100MB with Windows 7
The install of Windows 7 created the 100MB "System Reserved" BOOT area on the hard drive, a ROOTKIT virus found this "boot" sector and planted itsself there. None of the anti-virus programs can addrtess this space so the ROOTKIT never has to protect itsself
from removal. Every time you boot your machine the virus starts up. Since there are documents and email on this machine I do not want to "format" the entire drive. Is ther any way to assign this area a drive letter and allow access to it by anti-virus programs?
June 9th, 2011 5:50pm
Sorry, but you have posted your question in a forum that talk about Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), then I am moving your post to another
forum and I hope you can get some help. But if you want you can try to find other forum by yourself:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/
Hope that helps
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June 10th, 2011 4:12pm
You can use diskpart to assign a letter to that partition.
SeanMCTS: Windows 7
June 10th, 2011 4:36pm
I would be concerned about the source and integrity of the installation dvd that you have for Windows 7.
Visit this website:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/howtotell/default.aspx
The only way to be sure it's clean is a drive wipe and re-installation of the OS with a known legitimate installation dvd.
You could create a bootable anti-malware disk on another computer using this free tool:
http://www.avira.com/en/support-download-avira-antivir-rescue-system
No guarantee that it will work, but it may be worth a try. Scans and cleans prior to the OS loading.
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June 13th, 2011 10:15am