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RC> What about it?  FDISK/MBR will rewrite the boot sector, and any
RC> number of AV programs will eliminate a boot sector infection.
pc> Nooo!!! Not FDISK /MBR!! Sure, on a clean boot FDISK /MBR is ok,
pc> but on an infected system it can make things a lot worse. 
I know that.  You might care to note the discussion centered around
handling a generic boot sector infector - not a specific problem had
by a user.  If I advise people to use FDISK/MBR, I tell them the
conditions under which they can do it safely.  In this post, though,
the point was FDISK/MBR could be used INSTEAD OF formatting the disk,
which was the ONLY alternative advocated by the other poster.
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 13 Jan 19:32 
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