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[Quads]

"Just boot with windows cd then delete all partitions.

All data by its bits is removed."

Nope the data can still be retrived,  even if the Partition(s) are missing or corrupt

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[Hawkeyelom]

Do you have to do a low level format to completely clean a drive of malware?

[Rohit1gupta]

data can be retrieved but rootkits will not be able to perform until they are extracted intentionally.

So it will surely remove the malware. 

[Quads]

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Hawkeyelom wrote:
Do you have to do a low level format to completely clean a drive of malware?

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Nope,  a little secret, remove the Malware without, harming the OS, programs and personal data.

 

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[Hawkeyelom]

Well then can any type of drive format clean as drive of malware? I know that's not your preference--but surely there is a way to format that will remove it--like writing 1 & 0 s to all the drive/

If a dive has only one partition-just the drive-- will removing it and reformating not remove the rookit? I don't understand if this is not true--please explain why not?

Message Edited by Hawkeyelom on 09-17-2009 09:57 PM

[Quads]

Do the drive to DoD (7 pass) standard,  

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[Rohit1gupta]

still fbi have softwares to recover data after 7 pases

[Quads]

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Rohit1gupta wrote:
still fbi have softwares to recover data after 7 pases

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I have Never seen malware just come back from DoD. including mebroot

are always software to bring back data from wiped, corrupt HD's  I have some software that will bring data back from more than just a reformat. It's not a quick scan either.

 

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