-=> Quoting Peter Louwen to Bert Patterson <=-
 PL> Bad Mistake #2: since you had booted clean, you should have run virus
 PL> checkers (OFF the floppy, I might hasten to add).
Did that, nothing showed up.
 BP> I formatted the drive and installed the backup I had, which was a bit
 PL> Talk about the sledgehammer approach !
 Formatting the partition didn't fix it, as below did.
 BP> After several attempts at getting things right, I decided to fdisk the
 BP> drive and remove the partitions and create them again, after installing
 BP> the backup this finally fixed the problem.
 PL>
 PL> Sounds like you had a MBR (Master Boot Record) virus.
If I had a Master boot record virus, the virus checkers should have found it.
Scan, F-Prot and AVP.
 BP> Running several virus programs while I had the altered files didn't
 BP> show any viruses.
 PL>
 PL> Did you run them when you had booted clean ?
Yes, but they found nothing, yet something was expanding the files.
Only when I removed the partitions and reinstalled them did things become
normal.
... Back up my hard disk? I can't find the reverse switch!
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