Re: Boot sector viruses on IDE drives (PC)

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From: short
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 19:58

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johnboyd@logdis1.oc.aflc.af.mil (John Boyd;LAHDI) writes:

> not possible on an IDE drive.  So the question becomes; for an IDE
> drive, what DO you do to get rid of a boot sector virus?

McAfee Associates ( The ScanV folks) have a program that will remove a
boot sector virus.  Its name is Clean-up, They also have another
called Mdisk.  I'll vouch for it, as It removed the Stoned virus from
my Seagate ST-1144A IDE drive without a hitch.  I don't know of a FTP
location, But it can be obtained from the authors BBS at 408-988-4004.

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