Hi The, (just write with your right name and it will look better)
you wrote in /FIDO/VIRUS_INFO at 22 Dec 96:
KW>> no, you never have to format your hard drive to recover from a virus
KW>> infection...
TV>        Absolutely incorrect. There are some times where removing a virus
You right. But just one word - 'never' - did it make wrong.
TV> from your hard drive will leave the boot sector and the FAT table
TV> encrypted, and the only way to recover from it is to format the drive.
For some viruses there a special removers which decrypt this stuff too.
TV>        The MOST IMPORTANT THING to do when you're infected is to BACK UP
TV> EVERYTHING to tape or to a ZiP drive or some other device. DO NOT
TV> immediately remove the virus. You should find out what it is, and what it
TV> does before you remove it.
That's right, as stated above one may have more luck using a more special
virus remover. Sometimes you will also get the info the virus is a data
diddler and nobody can say what it did change (see Ripper).
That's a point where most AV software would fail a test, they simple give
not enough information to the user.
Michael
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