Buckrogers

Yes, I have done a search on this BBS and seen whats been said

My parents machine is sh@gged, looks like boot sector virus but then again it could still be a H/W fault.

Its been a while since I was in IT doing this sort of stuff on a daily basis.

I am looking for someone who can recommend any good AV program WITH the ability to make a bootable floppy disk to check this PC.

I have McAffee, but for some reason it cannot read the boot sector.

I have tried fdisk /mbr which ran ok, but on reboot problems still there.

TIA for any help.

Buck

swaussie

a great free AV with a boot time scan is Avast. Updates are automatic and free, runs as a screensaver if you want ... check it out here.

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

JackClark

> have McAffee, but for some reason it cannot read the boot sector

NTFS partition?

Buckrogers

Boot scan only works with 2k / nt /xp


Machine is 98.

Will upgrade to 2k if I can get rid of this virus!