Re: ATM 386 Notebook Virus Alert "Empire Monkey.b" virus

[jdo348@earthlink.net (Jerry Dove)]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:28:32 -0700, you wrote:

        Hi Bill,

        Format c: won't clean the root sector of the files there.
That's where some of these viruses hide, and from what I've been told,
if you format over them, it makes it twice as hard to get rid of
them..
        I just found this out myself as one of the other students
caught a virus on the web and the class was discussing it .
        I also asked the teacher about the format /mbr command and he
said that that sometimes doesn't work either, so I guess there's more
to these things than I ever suspected.
        Anyway, I have this disk if your interested.

                Good luck,
                         Jerry

>Thanks Justin,
>
>Will a good old fashioned [  format c:  ] and a clean install of dos
>take care of this and any other potential virus problems? 
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Bill
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>Jerry Dove wrote:
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>> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:12:51 -0400, you wrote:
>> 
>>         Hi All,
>> 
>>         I hate to tell you this, but I'm in a a school learning
>> computer networking right now and fdisking the hard drive won't get
>> rid of it I'm afraid.  You'll probably have to do a low level format
>> to get rid of it.
>>         If your interested, I have a disk here that is made just to
>> get rid of such viruses and I'd be glad to send you a copy.  These are
>> nasty things and hard to get rid of.
>>         Hope this helps,  Let me know.
>> 
>>                 Jerry
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>> >>That happened to me too, I was writing C++ code on mine, when I went to
>> >>compile it on the schools computer, it detected the Stoned.Empire.Monk
>> >>virus. I have been very bussy lately and haven't had a chance to make sure
>> >>it was the laptops and not the disks... I guess this means it is the
>> >>computer.
>> >>
>> >>How updated was your McAfee software? My schools software was outdated so I
>> >>told them there might be something else on there that it missed.
>> >>
>> >>-Justin Kelly
>> >>
>> >>p.s. The only way I can think of is either hook the laptop hardrive up to
>> >>your desktop and clean it with McAfee, or possibly fdisk it. I'm sure some
>> >>one else here would know what to to more better than I.>
>> >>
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