From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.pcdesk.net (mail.pcdesk.net [65.66.213.142]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C6A10392 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:34:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.95] ([70.58.191.30]) (AUTH: PLAIN jbahm@pcdesk.net, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3, 256bits, CAMELLIA256-SHA) by mail.pcdesk.net with esmtp; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:31:10 -0600 id 0000000000017066.000000004B4E2D8E.00005FD2 Message-ID: <4B4E2E41.8020108@pcdesk.net> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:34:09 -0700 From: "Joseph C. Lininger" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Ervin , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Linux Parted question (fwd) References: <4B4D2CD8.2090504@pcdesk.net> <7E983A72184542B2A588DC582E00575A@AVERATECLAPTOP> In-Reply-To: <7E983A72184542B2A588DC582E00575A@AVERATECLAPTOP> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:34:23 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Glen, In that case, what you want to do is to first use print to print out your partition table. Make sure you have parted set to print in sectors. Then do the steps I talked about. Immediately after using mklabel, recreate the partitions exactly as they were, again making sure the start and end sectors match. That will destroy the MBR and anything else that might have that virus, as well as preserving the data. Also make sure to recreate the filesystems on any partitions where you think the virus may have been so that the boot sectors on those partitions will get overwritten. Viruses can sometimes hide there too. - -- Yes means no and no means yes. Delete all files [Y]? Joseph C. Lininger, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJLTi5BAAoJEMh8jNraUiwqJ9QH/RD1W6wWndJ+H+TndSdXyQxV 6u1OOYCdn0ZJup2fcT6NnYEG/4T0zJoBlS1URRBx9rFHK2LWFwPqKRuuZ16oUHqW TdLyJMAus1dfj8Ku1fbWnKaB6ISjeWSifFkjbLXqS8ahmEWZrwNjF2sjRvvc80f7 dsKaEOyXdcWvpRSsrQ10nSH+FOGUGKb24b+OXFxkrMgSlW4n8Hq2LYtsXc5cIJAH oa6+8DGIf53T6UAsE1Fyj+EdQF5ljbLA/WdGjlIcwYLAYv3kyQi5df+NK5A2JVjz pW5ov764OKRFE1gaA2LYNLlilWcm++4neRW+mZQScga++if5nmUR8caDVTu2q/I= =j20g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----