After 15 years of messing with computers (downloading from BBSes,
exchanging floppies, etc) my computer was infected for the first
time by the Stealthboot.a virus.
One thing that made me think I had been infected was when I did a
MEM command it would show 636K conventional instead of 640K. Also
Windows 3.1 would not run (showed the Logo then returned me DOS)
if RAM or NOEMS was used in the config.sys.
I ran MSAV and McAfee (both had outdated virus data files) and
neither detected the virus. Found AVP and it found and cured the
virus.
My system now reflects 640K conventional and Windows operates
as it should. Someone suggested that even though everything
appears normal I should run FDISK /MBR. Since this is an
undocumented switch I hestitate to use it. Appreciate any
input on the use of this switch in my case.
Regards
--- Msgedsq 2.2e
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