[pchelpers] Re: (No Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:10:54 -0500

Thanks Scott, this was my thoughts, but I wanted confirmation before I told
a friend, that he'd need to do more than just Fdisk.

Billy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott McNay" <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:12 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: (No Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:10:54 -0500


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> It is better to use a virus removal tool.
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> If you boot from a clean floppy, FDISK /MBR will rewrite the code in the
> MBR without affecting the partition information itself, unless the
> partition information is corrupted or encoded (some viruses do this).
>
> Plain FDISK, without the /MBR option, will not rewrite the code, unless
> FDISK thinks that the entire boot sector is bad, in which case it'll
> rewrite the entire thing.

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