johnboyd@logdis1.oc.aflc.af.mil (John Boyd;LAHDI) (06/11/91)
It recently occurred to me that we get rid of most boot-sector viruses by routinely doing a low-level format on a drive. However, this is not possible on an IDE drive. So the question becomes; for an IDE drive, what DO you do to get rid of a boot sector virus? And yes, I am constantly telling the users that I support that they really should be scanning everything first; even before doing a directory, and all the other prudent precautionary steps, so hopefully we won't have a problem, but you know how that works. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Text contained herein is my personal opinion. This is not to be interpreted in any way as a position or statement of the DOD, USAF, or any other person or entity other than myself.
short@evax9.eng.fsu.edu (06/20/91)
johnboyd@logdis1.oc.aflc.af.mil (John Boyd;LAHDI) writes: > not possible on an IDE drive. So the question becomes; for an IDE > drive, what DO you do to get rid of a boot sector virus? McAfee Associates ( The ScanV folks) have a program that will remove a boot sector virus. Its name is Clean-up, They also have another called Mdisk. I'll vouch for it, as It removed the Stoned virus from my Seagate ST-1144A IDE drive without a hitch. I don't know of a FTP location, But it can be obtained from the authors BBS at 408-988-4004.
RNJUDD@SUVM.BITNET (Ronnie Judd) (06/20/91)
johnboyd@logdis1.oc.aflc.ar.mil (John Boyd:LAHDI) writes; > It recently occured to me that we get rid of most boot-sector viruses > by routinely doing a low-level format on a drive. However, this is > not possible on an IDE drive... Seems I keep seeing over and over on this list that one *almost never* has to do a low level format to remove boot sector viruses. However on the question of how does one format an IDE drive there are programs out there that will do such a thing. I recently upgraded a couple of Compaq machines and found Disk Manager 4.0 did the trick just fine. So if you feel that you *absolutely must* low level format to get rid of the offending virus give it a shot. Ronnie N. Judd | _ _ _ / | BITNET: RNJUDD@SUVM Dept. Civ/Env Engineering | / (o o) _ _ _ / | Phone: (315) 443-5796 220 Hinds Hall | |_/| |_| | | FAX: (315) 443-1243 Syracuse University | (._.)||_ _( / | A failure is a chance Syracuse, NY 13244-1190 | U _|| _|| | to start again smarter (Of course these are my opinoins, no one else wants them!)