Summary: my main board duz a mem test when it boots and it tested good it ran just fine for 3 months having 2 different sized mem sticks. also before you tell ...
Summary: Hylain_lynk has a very good point. There really is no need to scan your MBR from the BIOS. I mean, your system is either going to boot or its not. Get...
Summary: Dear AngryBuddah, This is very weird. I have exactly the same problem. I have fomatted the hard drive with a low-level format program from Seagate (Di...
Summary: I've been struggling with the stealth boot.b virus a while now. It corrupted a file necessary to run windows so i formatted and repartitioned. I also ...
Summary: Dr Spock There are two ways to submit a possibly infected file to Symantec Security Response: Through the Internet If you have NAV version 5 or later,...
Summary: Re: Unusual floppy drive activity POSSIBLE VIRAL BEHAVIOUR? This is very unlikely to be a hardware problem. This type of behaviour may be caused by a ...
Summary: This should do the job unless it is also a boot sector virus. However it does reset you back to the time the image was taken. Best to try to remove it...
Summary: It sounds like you have another problem besides Eco.A. Eco is a simple non damaging boot sector virus. If you have access to another machine, download...
Summary: before reinstalling win 98 turn power off machine and let set for 1 or2 min it could be a boot sector virus by letting the machine set for a min with ...
Summary: For a boot-sector virus to infect your PC, you have to attempt to boot from the infected floppy. You can copy files to and from it all day without in...
Summary: This is just IMHO... Since Thom has a business to run he will tell you anything to bring in new business. Don't be gullible. If you google the inter...
Summary: hello kevin well i got a few possible solutions for you in dealing with boot sector viruses. 1. if u somewhat a computer tech use another hard drive ...
Summary: hi buddies well i have both the operating systems on my samsung 80 gb drive.all the partitions on this hdd are fat 32.c: drive has win 98 and d: drive...
Summary: Virus doesn't technically infect your hardware, (I take that back) but it souds like you have a BIOS enabled Boot Sector virus,it hides itself in the ...
Summary: more virus info ... --------------- What Do Viruses Do? I'm going to present an easy to understand but detailed explanation of viruses and other types...
Summary: Reformatting alone does not get rid of all viruses. If its a boot sector virus it can infect the floppy you use to reinstall you Operating System. I h...
Summary: After running etrust av, it found that I have 2 boot sector errors Boot sector A(-105) Boot sector d(-105) I've got etrust configured to cure the erro...
Summary: Norton Antivirus detected a virus name Eek (b) and it has started attacking my MBR and so I run FDISK and found out the virus is still in the PC then ...
Summary: Still I think it unlikely a boot sector virus could do that. A bootable device is the first to have code read. A second or other partition does not ex...
Summary: I don't know what to answer for the BootSector Write! Virus: (Y/N)? Tried no and couldn't get into the bios setting. Naturally yes would be the next s...
Summary: Hi, my sister's computer had a master boot record virus which I got rid of by using the Windows Recovery console to replace the boot record and master...
Summary: It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the floppy has been infected. Before the Internet, that was the most common way of spreading viruses....
Summary: To address 2 - If it doesn't scan the boot sector, it may not detect a boot sector virus. Remember that the viruses come out before the dat files are ...
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