Hi Mack,
 > Now, how is it that booting from a clean boot disk and
 > scaning the harddrive
 > indicates no virus, yet booting from the hard drive
 > indicates traces of the
 > virus.  Better yet, how do I get rid of this virus with out
 > formatting when
 > all virus scanning programs says there is no virus?
Are you using DriveSpace?  I suspect that yes.  If so,
I would also suspect that the compressed volume file
does not get mounted when you boot from the floppy and
thus is not scanable as a drive but just as a compressed
file.  I doubt any current AV products could detect
something in a CVF.  You need to mount the CVF for it
to be recognised as a drive and then scan it.  Most likely,
something from the CVF that gets loaded on start up is
infected.
As far as I know, MS does not provide a separate utility
to mount a CVF, but ScanDisk can.
Ciao,
Guy
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