OP@TRAKDEN.BITNET (Yavuz Selim KOMUR) (07/27/90)
Hello Virus networker. We have Stoned virus in PC. How I clear virus it from partion table I tried to format hard disk two times, but I couldn't successfull . Thank for your comments. Yavuz.
SANTO@SENECA.BITNET (07/28/90)
If you're going to use the Norton Advanced Utilities you may as well remove
the Stoned virus while you're there.
Hard Disk Infection:
- copy Side 0 Cylinder 0 Sector 7 to Side 0 Cylinder 0 Sector 1.
- 007 is where your original partition table has been moved.
Floppy Diskette Infection:
- copy Side 1 Cylinder 0 Sector 3 to Side 0 Cylinder 0 Sector 1.
- 103 is where your original boot sector has been moved.
This may not work for all variations of the Stoned virus but it probably will.
Good Luck.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------frank@relay.EU.net (Mulder F.J.M.) (07/30/90)
Dear Yavuz, I had a similar case recently, and the method used to destroy the virus in the partition table was as follows: - - Boot the machine from a write protected, non infected system disk, so that the virus does not become resident and infects the system immediately after you removed it. - - Find a PC of the same brand as the infected one, with the same harddisk and the same partition of the harddisk. - - Use Norton Utility (advanced edition) to make a copy of the partition table of the non-infected harddisk (use absolute sector 0 0 1 write to file as described in the booklet that came with your Norton utilities) - - Again use the Norton utility to write this file on the infected system to absolute sector 0 0 1. - - if all went well, you should now have a clean harddisk and you can continu to clean all infected diskettes, by copying them to clean diskettes followed by a format. Note: depending on your harddisk it might either be nessecary to copy only the very first physical sector, or the whole first track. You can find out by using the partition table editor to see where the first logical sector starts. If you have any questions, you can contact me at FJ_Mulder@pttrnl.nl