Hello ive got like 60 viruses on this computer. I got a message on startup (before windows) it was after it did the startup scan with AVG. Anyway it said i had trojans and needed to start up with a AVG system disk. I had an idea. To make a AVG boot CD. I wastyed 3 or 4 CD'S trying this. Finally got it to work. I got it to work with a 98 boot disk (floppy). I put the floppy in and restarted. I got to options screen i chose start with CD-Rom support. at the prompd i type E:\ Auto.exe. Guess what the 7 floppies it used to take now it only takes one the 98 boot disk. I already had the files from the 7 floppies copied. I used nero and the first floppy and chose make bootable data CD. You have to make sure you choose make bootable CD. You will need the 1st AVG boot floppy to use to make the CD bootable. Has anyone else tried this? Im hopeing to be the first one and get rich :)

Maybe you can use the 98 bootdisk to make the CD bootable. Oh i mean i had the files from the 7 floppies copied to a folder. Also mean to add E:\ use whatever letter your CD rom drive letter is. It should tell you before the A prompt. Sorry about all the typos.

What on earth are you talking about? Yes - creating a bootable CD from a bootdisk or bootdisk image is a standard feature of burning software Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is not more a science than a heap of stones is a home

I made a AVG boot CD to scan for viruses and clan them from a DOS enviriment. L.O.L it found the viruses i thought i cleaned them all but when i took the disk out CD-Rom and floppy rebooted i got invalid system disk. I slaved the drive to another drive booted the computer up. Went into My computer on the desktop looked in the drive that was infected it was a blank drive. Also it showed the drive as 12 gig and its a 40 gig. The master was a 12 gig it showed both as 12 gig. I looked in fdisk with the 40 gig as master and there it showed 40 gig. Now this is wierd. Good thing i did have ghost a backup before it got infected.

try a different virus scanner, also try spyware scanner first, also try using firewall, waiting to allow so many trojans and virus to get in, is not advised, no need to ghost or fdisk... :)

I know what you mean. With AVG you are supposed to create a rescue disk using floppies (currently 7 and there will be more as the data base grows). I use manual AVG Updates so I create these each time (about once a week). I accept it is getting a bit barmy, so there could be food for thought in your ideas. I'm not too sure I see much advantage in using a CD instead of floppies because it will still need updating. Maybe you can set out the advantages. DerekW

Seems to be one of those cases where a lttle proofreading would've gone a long way. So... CDs hold more than floppies - is that it? Valuable insight, thanks - I'll make a note Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is not more a science than a heap of stones is a home