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Can a virus survive complete format?
Name: ken Date: August 6, 2002 at 05:49:34 Pacific
Comment:
Can a virus survive a deletion and creation of partition with fdisk, and then format?
Name: capt Date: August 6, 2002 at 07:45:48 Pacific
Reply:
If the virus was made to attack the BIOS, yes. Some motherboard manufacturers have an antivirus program for the BIOS, because of this possiblity. If your BIOS is infected you clear the BIOS by using the jumpers or removing the cmos battery, just like you were resetting a password that you forgot. All the best!
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