Re: Will reformatting your hard drive remove the winproc32 virus???

From: D.Currie (dmbcurrie.nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 09:58:56 -0700

Yeah, but the OP said he didn't want to fix the problem and wanted to know
if formatting would get rid of the virus, so that's what I answered. There
might be additional problems that the OP hasn't mentioned that leads him to
want to format the drive.

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:169c901c417ae$a0da5cb0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> That's like trying to kill an ant with a sledgehammer!
>
> Overkill!
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> ><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:16ed301c4179d$03d6ce50$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Will reformatting your hard drive (uninstalling and
> using
> >> the manufacturers restore cd) remove winproc32 virus?
> The
> >> winproc 32 virus hijacks your default homepage and
> changes
> >> your default windows registry information. I am not
> >> interested in downlaoding any software to fix the
> >> problem. Will reformatting the hard-drive remove the
> >> virus and eliminate subsequent problems???
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Formatting the hard drive will get rid of almost any
> virus. There are a few
> >exceptions, but one that hijacks your home page is not
> one of the ones that
> >would be likely to hang on.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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