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boot trouble (virus)
Name: Benladouche Date: November 2, 2006 at 03:23:41 Pacific OS: win 3.1 and dos 6.2 CPU/Ram: 386 /387 Product: compaq
Comment:
good morning !
My old computer has been infected by a virus (=> virus boot a: ) . I can't load either win 3.1 nor dos 6.2 . When the computer start , it load the bios and after , an underscore flicke at the right side " _ _ _ _ _ " and nothing load .
i have this problem since i have insert a fu** floppy disk. but now i can do nothing .
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: November 2, 2006 at 04:31:43 Pacific
Reply:
If it were me the first attempt I would make is to remove the hard drive from the infected machine and hook it up as a slave to another system and run a virus scan there...HTH
Keep the old stuff running
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Response Number 2
Name: dosser Date: November 2, 2006 at 04:34:31 Pacific
Reply:
Are you sure it is a Virus ??
Have you checked that the hard drive still has the system files intact ??
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Response Number 3
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: November 2, 2006 at 04:34:58 Pacific
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Just thought of another thing F-Prot I think still has a BOOTABLE floppy that might be of some help as well....
Name: Benladouche Date: November 2, 2006 at 09:58:27 Pacific
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I have try the floopy with a recent computer with antivirus ( Kaspersky ) , it has detect immediatly the virus . But for my old computer i don't think that an antivirus will done, because the effect of virus is loaded and it has destroy the boot files.
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Response Number 5
Name: jboy Date: November 2, 2006 at 14:57:45 Pacific
Reply:
Boot files are easily restored, but bad habits are not so readily overcome
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock
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Response Number 6
Name: GX1 Man Date: November 9, 2006 at 18:23:21 Pacific
Reply:
Boot from a system disk and type from the a:>
fdisk /mbr
and press enter.
If it is a boot sector virus, that may well fix your problem.
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Response Number 7
Name: Benladouche Date: November 13, 2006 at 11:31:12 Pacific
Summary: Check out your BIOS set-up you will find an option for virus protection (to stop boot sector virus from entering system if you boot with a floppy disk drive by mistake)set it to off. when dos tries to...
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