Microsoft is telling Windows users that they'll have to reinstall the operating system if they get infected with a new rootkit that hides in the machine's boot sector.
A new variant of a Trojan Microsoft calls "Popureb" digs so deeply into the system that the only way to eradicate it is to return Windows to its out-of-the-box configuration, Chun Feng, an engineer with the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), said last week on the group's blog.
If this reminds you of the 80's, it should. At least back then you could boot to your DOS rescue disk and type FDISK /MBR to get rid of boot sector viruses. Now that there is too much money to be made off of viruses, I'm sure this command no longer works.
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