Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...
In actual fact this virus deletes your FLASH BIOS rendering motherboard
useless unless of course your got a bios chip around.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>
To: <kriol@fnal.gov>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 1999 2:38
Subject: Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...
> In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > after my kid was playing games on win95 yesterday
> > evening i was unable to boot into Linux - actually unable
> > to boot into win95 also... Looks like some kind of
> > virus destroyed boot sector with partition table.
> >
> > i can remember approximate partition sizes and order.
> >
> > Is there any way to recover partition table and the system
> > as well ?
>
> You got hit with the CIH virus. It was well publicized at least
> a week prior to the detonation date (yesterday). All reports that
> I have seen don't hold much hope for recovering without a full reinstall.
> (hope you backed up your data..)
>
> It is an unfortunate fact that if you want to run Windows on a machine
> nowadays, you must pay tribute to the antivirus gods or suffer their
> wrath from time to time.
>
> -Mitch
>
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