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-----Original Message----- Not true...the virus could be stored in your BIOS! I have seen that several times. It is a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them. It could be stored on your boot sector and coppied to the BIOS. If you fdisk the hard drive, the virus will be copied right back to the hard drive from the BIOS's copy. You must "0" fill or low level format the hard drive. Then do not fdisk it yet and shut it down. Clear the CMOS and then flash the BIOS. Now you have a clean computer. You may now fdisk and continue with the installation... I have had to do this from a real stupid MS copywrite protection guard. I have tried to burn a copy of a MS game (I think that it was Plus Game Pack...only $30) and got this SNAFU. That was the only way I got out from under that... Good luck! . Hmmmm... Hard pill to swallow, but I've gotten just about the same responses everywhere. Back-up files time I guess, but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe files for program re- installs)? |
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-----Original Message----- Not true...the virus could be stored in your BIOS! I have seen that several times. It is a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them. It could be stored on your boot sector and coppied to the BIOS. If you fdisk the hard drive, the virus will be copied right back to the hard drive from the BIOS's copy. You must "0" fill or low level format the hard drive. Then do not fdisk it yet and shut it down. Clear the CMOS and then flash the BIOS. Now you have a clean computer. You may now fdisk and continue with the installation... I have had to do this from a real stupid MS copywrite protection guard. I have tried to burn a copy of a MS game (I think that it was Plus Game Pack...only $30) and got this SNAFU. That was the only way I got out from under that... Good luck! . Hmmmm... Hard pill to swallow, but I've gotten just about the same responses everywhere. Back-up files time I guess, but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe files for program re- installs)? |
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"...but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe
files for program re-installs)?" You could test them with your antivirus software. Rocky wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- Not true...the virus could be stored in your BIOS! I have seen that several times. It is a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them. It could be stored on your boot sector and coppied to the BIOS. If you fdisk the hard drive, the virus will be copied right back to the hard drive from the BIOS's copy. You must "0" fill or low level format the hard drive. Then do not fdisk it yet and shut it down. Clear the CMOS and then flash the BIOS. Now you have a clean computer. You may now fdisk and continue with the installation... I have had to do this from a real stupid MS copywrite protection guard. I have tried to burn a copy of a MS game (I think that it was Plus Game Pack...only $30) and got this SNAFU. That was the only way I got out from under that... Good luck! . Hmmmm... Hard pill to swallow, but I've gotten just about the same responses everywhere. Back-up files time I guess, but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe files for program re- installs)? |
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-----Original Message----- Not true...the virus could be stored in your BIOS! I have seen that several times. It is a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them. It could be stored on your boot sector and coppied to the BIOS. If you fdisk the hard drive, the virus will be copied right back to the hard drive from the BIOS's copy. You must "0" fill or low level format the hard drive. Then do not fdisk it yet and shut it down. Clear the CMOS and then flash the BIOS. Now you have a clean computer. You may now fdisk and continue with the installation... I have had to do this from a real stupid MS copywrite protection guard. I have tried to burn a copy of a MS game (I think that it was Plus Game Pack...only $30) and got this SNAFU. That was the only way I got out from under that... Good luck! . Hmmmm... Hard pill to swallow, but I've gotten just about the same responses everywhere. Back-up files time I guess, but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe files for program re- installs)? |
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-----Original Message----- Not true...the virus could be stored in your BIOS! I have seen that several times. It is a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them. It could be stored on your boot sector and coppied to the BIOS. If you fdisk the hard drive, the virus will be copied right back to the hard drive from the BIOS's copy. You must "0" fill or low level format the hard drive. Then do not fdisk it yet and shut it down. Clear the CMOS and then flash the BIOS. Now you have a clean computer. You may now fdisk and continue with the installation... I have had to do this from a real stupid MS copywrite protection guard. I have tried to burn a copy of a MS game (I think that it was Plus Game Pack...only $30) and got this SNAFU. That was the only way I got out from under that... Good luck! . Hmmmm... Hard pill to swallow, but I've gotten just about the same responses everywhere. Back-up files time I guess, but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe files for program re- installs)? |
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"...but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe
files for program re-installs)?" You could test them with your antivirus software. Rocky wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- Not true...the virus could be stored in your BIOS! I have seen that several times. It is a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them. It could be stored on your boot sector and coppied to the BIOS. If you fdisk the hard drive, the virus will be copied right back to the hard drive from the BIOS's copy. You must "0" fill or low level format the hard drive. Then do not fdisk it yet and shut it down. Clear the CMOS and then flash the BIOS. Now you have a clean computer. You may now fdisk and continue with the installation... I have had to do this from a real stupid MS copywrite protection guard. I have tried to burn a copy of a MS game (I think that it was Plus Game Pack...only $30) and got this SNAFU. That was the only way I got out from under that... Good luck! . Hmmmm... Hard pill to swallow, but I've gotten just about the same responses everywhere. Back-up files time I guess, but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe files for program re- installs)? |
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"...but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe
files for program re-installs)?" You could test them with your antivirus software. Rocky wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- Not true...the virus could be stored in your BIOS! I have seen that several times. It is a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them. It could be stored on your boot sector and coppied to the BIOS. If you fdisk the hard drive, the virus will be copied right back to the hard drive from the BIOS's copy. You must "0" fill or low level format the hard drive. Then do not fdisk it yet and shut it down. Clear the CMOS and then flash the BIOS. Now you have a clean computer. You may now fdisk and continue with the installation... I have had to do this from a real stupid MS copywrite protection guard. I have tried to burn a copy of a MS game (I think that it was Plus Game Pack...only $30) and got this SNAFU. That was the only way I got out from under that... Good luck! . Hmmmm... Hard pill to swallow, but I've gotten just about the same responses everywhere. Back-up files time I guess, but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe files for program re- installs)? |
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"...but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe
files for program re-installs)?" You could test them with your antivirus software. Rocky wrote in message ... -----Original Message----- Not true...the virus could be stored in your BIOS! I have seen that several times. It is a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them. It could be stored on your boot sector and coppied to the BIOS. If you fdisk the hard drive, the virus will be copied right back to the hard drive from the BIOS's copy. You must "0" fill or low level format the hard drive. Then do not fdisk it yet and shut it down. Clear the CMOS and then flash the BIOS. Now you have a clean computer. You may now fdisk and continue with the installation... I have had to do this from a real stupid MS copywrite protection guard. I have tried to burn a copy of a MS game (I think that it was Plus Game Pack...only $30) and got this SNAFU. That was the only way I got out from under that... Good luck! . Hmmmm... Hard pill to swallow, but I've gotten just about the same responses everywhere. Back-up files time I guess, but could any of my files be infected (essentially .doc files & .exe files for program re- installs)? |
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The most probable place would be the macros within a word document...
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The most probable place would be the macros within a word document...
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The most probable place would be the macros within a word document...
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The most probable place would be the macros within a word document...
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