-=> Quoting Earl Montgomery to ALL <=-
 EM> After 15 years of messing with computers (downloading from BBSes,
 EM> exchanging floppies, etc) my computer was infected for the first
 EM> time by the Stealthboot.a virus. 
Wow, that is a long time to be running that way without a virus
infection. Wish my network would run that long without a user getting an
infection :)
 EM> I ran MSAV and McAfee (both had outdated virus data files) and
 EM> neither detected the virus. Found AVP and it found and cured the
 EM> virus.
I don't know if MSAV would have found it, but McAfee with up to date
files would have. Glad AVP was able to shank it.
 EM> My system now reflects 640K conventional and Windows operates 
 EM> as it should. Someone suggested that even though everything
 EM> appears normal I should run FDISK /MBR. Since this is an
 EM> undocumented switch I hestitate to use it. Appreciate any
 EM> input on the use of this switch in my case.
FDISK /MBR rebuilds the master boot record of a hard drive. It is
usually suggested after a boot record virus is found and cleaned. However,
I have only run it twice in the 16 years I have worked with PC's, and both
times it was for non-virus related incidents. If the machine appears to
be running fine and you have not lost any files then I would not worry
about FDISK /MBR.
RS
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