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BIOS got attack!
Name: christopher Date: March 5, 2003 at 05:43:54 Pacific OS: Win98se CPU/Ram: Pentium III, 550 Mhz
Comment:
Help me! My BIOs was attack by virus! The virus was unknown! Whatever command I type in the dos prompt just sink to the bottom!
Name: Petit Jean Date: March 5, 2003 at 07:04:23 Pacific
Reply:
Do you get a chance to see the message to access the Bios like Press Del when the computer does the test called POST after power up?Can you boot with a boot disk?
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Response Number 2
Name: demodv Date: March 5, 2003 at 20:17:32 Pacific
Reply:
The command for cleaning the boot sector is fdisk /mbr this will clean the master boot record You will most likly have to reformat and install Windoz from your cd.BACKUP first before doing anything.
The steps are:
backup data format c: fdisk /mbr set bios to boot from cdrom boot from windows cdrom setup windoz reinstall data(email add,Mydocs,favor) get drivers for sound card,video,network
thats all
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Response Number 3
Name: christopher Date: March 5, 2003 at 21:15:14 Pacific
Reply:
No! I can see a command prompt but when I type command, it just sinks to the bottom with no function on that command!
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