hi I've been attacked on my other computer (os win 2000) by a virus : I was on the internet (with netscape) when a series of popup appeared saying "you are not god, you are fu**ed" I imediately swithed off my pc and when I restarted, the hd was no longer detected (neither by fdisk and norton disk rescue) All of my friends have recieved a mail from me containing a part of one of my personnal .doc I do'nt know what to do Help !!!! thanks for reading this in spite of my awful english (I'm french) Lecobra

i've found the name of it : see http://www.symantec.com/region/fr/avcenter/magistr_24876.html anyway it doesn't solve my pb... how to rebuild the CMOS ?

Insert boot floppy, at A:> prompt type fdisk /mbr (dont forget the space) Exit fdisk, remove floppy, reboot computer, and see if Windows starts normally. Are you using Anti-virus/Firewall on your comp?

fdisk /mbr worked now it writes "os not found" before i had "disk boot failure" when i use a boot floppy, c: works but when I type dir or what else I have "media is not ready" Fdisk recognize my partition but I don't know if i can recover my data thanks lecobra

One of the payloads of this virus is that it overwrites the hard drive. If you are receiving a mesage that "os not found', there is a VERY good chance that your hard drive (or at least critical portions of it) has been deleted. I've only seen one case where the drive was deleted, but in that instance only a complete system reload would resolve the problem. All data on that drive was lost forever. To the best of my knowledge, there is no recovery from an infection this serious with this virus,,,sorry.

You need to make sure that you don't turn off your computer when you detect a virus until you determine what virus it is.... Disconnect from the Internet, but don't turn off the machine... Some viruses don't do their real damage until the machine is actually turned off.

Are-you sure you can't do anything to recover the data? fdisk/mbr delete the fat but W2K make a copy of the FAT. So if you reboot with a boot floppy or if you put the hard drive in another computer you can recover some DATA? For the last case the virus will do some damage, it's dangerous? Isn't it? It's wrong? P.S. : sorry for my english...