dban is a bit overkill if you just want to wipe the MBR and destroy data on a drive. A single zero pass would be fine
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Takes a hell of a lot less time!
It does have that option. I used the so called "least secure" option of a zero pass on a 100 gb HD and it took 2 hours max. Some of the erase options dban offers are insane.
Just use a linux liveCD and run:
DISCLAIMER: DO NOT "test" THESE COMMANDS ON A SYSTEM YOU DON'T WANT TO DESTROY!!!!!dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
where X is the device
Did this to a 1TB drive not long ago, took maybe 4 hours... maybe a little more.
You could also do a (psuedo)random data write with
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
Since we were talking about these rootkit viruses within the MBR.. If you just wanted to kill the MBR:
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX bs=446 count=1
and to remove both the MBR and the partition table (which you'd have to rebuild if you wanted to use the partitions again!):
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1
DISCLAIMER: DO NOT "test" THESE COMMANDS ON A SYSTEM YOU DON'T WANT TO DESTROY!!!!!I'd imagine these rootkits would get back into the MBR as soon as windows boots again, so I don't think this would fix it without at least killing the processes/services which it depends on in windows.
Interesting virus.. very nasty
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I'm gonna do some checking on all my systems. Guess its perfectly possible that poeple are losing their wallets to this rootkit/botnet - they could easily send a command to the infected machines to search for wallet.dat and send email/send it somewhere. Obviously I'm just guessing! But AFAIK you could end up infected just by visiting the wrong website :/
Dude, I hate you so much! It totally wiped out my computer!