Re: virus won't leave even after formating?

From: Hannes (hannes_at_kuusalu.edu.ee)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:23:15 +0300

lost cause wrote:

> I have a virus on WIN XP that won't let WIN load, so first I used
> Norton 03 as a boot disk to see if it could get rid of it, nope
> wouldn't scan. So I had no where to go so I just formated my only
> drive completely, watched it count down the percent to 100, then
> restarted, still there. If my only drive is formated where the hell is
> the virus? Any info will be much appreciated.

If you are connected to internet 24/7 and your ISP has not closed ports
for you, the virus might be on your network.

My friend had this problem. Solution. He disconnected from the web, made
clean install and installed a firewall. After that he reconnected and
voila ... viruses started to flow in. Well, they tried to. Firewall
blocked them all.

Hannes

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