[pchelpers] Re: magi star virus help

If the CMOS is affected it will need more than setting up the hard drive
again. It will need resetting the CMOS settings and possibly re-flashing
the BIOS (depending on what the virus did).

Nigel wrote:
> 
> There is a version of disk doctor that works with fat32 as well.  I've
> got
> it somewhere I think.
> 
> What does fdisk/mbr do?  Maybe Johnathon could boot off a floppy and
> try.
> 
> The virus is called W32.magistr  (not magistAr) and there is a good
> write up
> on www.symantec.com.  Johnathon might find that there is more damage
> than an
> un-recoverable hdd since this virus can overwrite cmos as well.  My
> guess is
> that it is better to just grab the bull by the horns and get on with a
> fresh
> install - then install an anti virus program!!!
> 
> Nigel

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