Re: Do I have a virus?

To: David Punsalan <punsalan@che.utexas.edu>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Do I have a virus?
From: Martyn Pearce <m.pearce@inpharmatica.co.uk>
Date: 29 Oct 1999 12:45:21 +0000
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| > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
| > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
| > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal 
| > win98 life: 
| > 
| > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command

Curious that fdisk didn't do it.  Might be worth checking the BIOS
settings --- some M/Bs have a "virus protection" mechanism that, when
enabled, prevents anything writing to the first sector of the hard disk.

Mx.

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