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Virus on PC had to delete HDD still problems

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Old 11 October 2002, 02:31 PM
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Only thing you could have is a boot sector virus, if you want to make sure this is gone start up with a boot disk and run fdisk /mbr this will overwrite the existing boot sector with a clean one. I doubt it's a virus but you've nothing to lose now.
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got friends PC in work today to have a look at riddled with virus, no anti-virus on at all so to cut a long story short..... ended up doing a fdisk and re-setting up

putting ME on now tried a couple of times installs fine until its on final screen and I keep getting the error

"explorer has caused a fault in user32.dll" thi smessage keeps on reporting in a loop.

Has the virus done something

advice please

Jase

[Edited by jase555 - 10/11/2002 1:23:14 PM]
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