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


Yes, depending upon the virus, he might need to do more than just FDISK
-- who knows if there's a virus out there that installs itself in the
boot sector AND installs into Windows, in which case zapping the boot
sector won't do much good, unless you're reformatting the entire drive
anyway.

--Scott.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Billyus
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 7:17 am

> 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.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott McNay" <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:12 PM

> > It is better to use a virus removal tool.
> >
> > 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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