Re: Virus help

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 08/08/05 

Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 13:18:03 -0400

From: "Peace" <spreadtheloce@heaven.com>

| Hi ... Thanks for your quick reply ... I am no pro or anything , I would say
| above average though computer user ... I was thinking if she was to place
| her xp disc in the cd rom drive , shouldn't she be able to boot off that ? I
| mean just as long as the bios boot order first is cd rom , Wouldn't that
| work ? And if so then she could try to remove the virus with her anti virus
| program , yes or no ?

How do you know its a virus ?

Are you just assuming this or did Norton actually find something and then no more boot ? 

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

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