I just deleted a very nasty boot partion virus from my HDD, and was wondering if anyone knows what it was called? I first discovered it when windows 95 did'nt work on my spare computer (P100, 32mb ram, award bios).
It crashed my windows 95 and stopped it booting up, so i decided to format the drive (not knowing it to be a virus), which caused many more problems.
It then seemed to spread to my boot disk amd was spread to another HDD(i thought the first was dead so tried another). I then started to suspect a virus.
I downloaded a HDD check program from the manufacturer which told me the drive needed to be replaced... I then downloaded a program that erases the boot partion, and started to repair the damage from there, and it now works fine.
Whenever i formated the HDD or tried to pation it with fdisk it said the following, whilst beeping consistantly:
***********************************************************
!!!Warning!!!
Disk boot sector is to be modified
Type "Y" to accept, any key to abort
Award Software, inc
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Does anyone know what this virus could have been and how to disposed of it correctly? thanks in advance -del

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It could be a LOT of different viruses. Remove everything in FDISK and start over. That should solve your problems.

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Very nasty virus though. How do u guys get these things- I've been on the interent for 3 years now w/o antivirus, and never gotten one. Is it that I'm just lucky, or is it something else?

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It can come through many ways - most commonly through email attachments or unsuspecting colleagues giving you files. If you follow safe practices with just your email, you've already limited your chances of getting a virus by half.

Rob
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What program did you use to erase the boot partition as well? I am having similar problems with my hard drives .. so maybe I have the same thing. I can't boot up the drive and only the bios recognizes my drive and then it stops from there.

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The first thing you should do is download a cheching utility from the HDD manufactures website it should have one. I'm not sure what the utility i downloaded was called but there are loads of them about in the web.

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