A friends computer repeatedly comes up with a blue sceen about 1/4 of total screen that states you should put your feet up and take a break. It also says to hit the exit key to exit this screen. No exit button exists. The screen appears about every 15 minutes and will disapear by itself after 15 seconds. It appears in Dos/Windows and even after you have shut down your computer. I have run the latest virus scans on this system and it comes up clean. You can put a bootable Dos floppy in the system and it will still appear. Help!

That's an amazing statement! Not the virus but the idea that it wirks even when the system is booted by floppy disk. First we need to check out some of the possibilities. 1) Make a boot disk from some other computer that does not have this virus problem. 2) Boot up with that disk in the (Infected) computer. 3) Do not do ANYTHING after booting to floppy. If you run a program living on the hard drive, or run a program that accesses the hard drive, you may accidentally trigger whatever virus or joke program you have on your system. Now I'm 99.999% that that will solve the problem. If your virus doesn't show itself when booting from disk, it's no super-virus, just some dumb program on your hard disk. Email me and I'll try to help you remove it...for good. 4) If the virus does still pop-up, there are two things you should do...email me and I'll try to give you possible senarios, and contact a company like Symantec, McAfee, or CAI and tell them about your virus, Because it's something that the world has never seen the likes of before.

The boot floppy I used was from a differant system. I brought it form home. This individual has been trying for 2 months to rid him from this issue. We ran both McAfee and Nortons antivirus 2000 with new definition files installed. It appears as if the virus either lives in the bios on the computer or in the video memory. The system is a NEC 9734 200 MHZ with a S3Trio64+ video bd. (I believe built on the mother bd.)

there aint enough room in the bios for a virus, if any part of the bios was overwritten with a virus youd soon know about it when your machine failed to boot. Video memory is wiped every time you reset. How can the screen come up after you have shut down your machine??

It's another possibility; the partition table. There is code in the partition table that is executed every time the computer starts, with that hard disk, regardless if you boot from floppy or CD or whatever. Try running FDISK /MBR. That could (no warranties) do the thing.