Removal
Not only is this virus a right pain in the proverbial but it's a pain to get rid of too, took me almost a day to work out how to get the little tyke off of an infected PC for one of our customers (though admittedly most that time was running various virus/malware scanners that had little or no effect), a college resorted to FDisking a PC a week earlier, just glad I managed to clean the latest one.
Out of interest a lot of BIOSes have a boot sector protection option that should be enabled once windows is installed (even a lot of old AMIBIOS systems had this 10 years ago), this would prevent infection of the bootsector, halt the system when an infection attempts to take place and pipe an error straight to the Graphics card & internal beeper :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
