Please help !! My boot sector has Wyx virus. Mcafee bootscan idetifies it but does not remove it. I shall sincerely appreciate any help on the subject.

Go to the McAffee website and see if they have any removal information, if that doens't help try www.symantec.com and go to the anti virus section. You can search for the virus name and look for removal details. Raa

Try this: METHODS OF CLEANING VIRUS: It is recommended that all viruses be cleaned utilizing a Virus Protection program. However an alternate method of cleaning the virus is booting from a clean write protected boot diskette with fdisk.exe on it. Boot from the diskette and once at the A:\> type FDISK /MBR Please write protect by making sure that both holes are open on the floppy disk.

I have found to three links regarding the cleaning and fixing of WYX it is very popular in INDIA. WYX virus cleaner and fix. http://www.fireantivirus.com/freeutils.htm http://www.fireantivirus.com/ScanWYX.exe http://www.avp.ru http://www.avp.ch Mcafee and norton are unable to clean the wyx virus http://www.vet.com.au/html/zoo/descriptions/wyxb.htm http://www.vet.com.au/html/zoo/descriptions/utils/wyxfix.zip for any other help .give me a mail. Explorer

Hi Explorer ! WYXfix detects and cures WYX virus from Hard disk. How do I cure infected floppies ?? Thanks Raj

Hi Everybody ! >-- Solution to remove WYX virus fom an infected computer. -- I also had same boot sector virus in my computer memory and I tried mcafee antivirus kit but was not able to remove it, after some few here and there I was able to remove this virus. Before i tell u the procedure for removing this virus you must first know that these virus only spread thru an floppy to an computer while it boots. Procedure to remove the virus :- (It is very very simple to follow) 1) Find a computer Wind 98, or 95 which is clean from all types of viruses. 2) Format a floppy by right clicking on a: in explorer and choose format and then on "full" option to format it and then format the floppy. 3)Go to the Dos prompt c:\> 4)type as given below at c:\> sys a: for example : c:\> sys a: press enter button 5)It will copy few files into ur floppy but these files won't be seen except COMMAND.COM file. 6) On net go the site "www.vet.com.au/html/zoo/descriptions " and look in for wyx virus description and click on it. If needed read the descriptive file and download the wyxfix.zip file. This file will get download within 5 seconds. 7) Unzip the file, it will show 2 files in it a)Cwsdpmi.exe b)WYX_fix.exe 8)Copy these both files into the same floppy. 9)Floppy must contain these files :- a)Cwsdpmi.exe b)WYX_fix.exe c)COMMAND.COM 10)Write protect the Floppy 11)V.V.Imp Write protect the floppy 12)Now your bootable floppy is done. 13)Shutdown your infected computer fully. 14) Insert the floppy into floppy drive and start the computer 15) It will show you some configuration settings no need to worry about that then it will go to a: 16) At a:\> type wyx_fix.exe for example:- a:\> wyx_fix.exe This will permanently remove the wyx virus from your computer memory. Now remove the floppy and then restart/reboot your computer. 17) To stop this virus coming next time to your computer you see to it that you download the "bootminder" file from "www.freebyte.com/bootminer ".This file will get downloaded within 5 min. 18) Bootminder Help in this way : Whenever you shutdown ur computer u forget to remove the floppy from a: drive and may be that floppy would be sort of infected by wyx virus and hence in the next morning when u come and reboot ur machine (still floppy staying at his home drive a:) ur machine get affected by the virus. From a: drive the virus goes and resides in computer memory and hence if you try delete any file or format ur c: drive won't work. Here bootminder comes into rescue. It will always warn u before u shutdown ur computer that there is still a floppy in a: drive and until and unless u don't remove that floppy it won't let u shut down ur computer. Pls. if possible. provide these info to all others. Thanks, Best of Luck from my side. Shinu

I probabily affected with Wyx boot virus. I don't know how to clean it. Please help me.