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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Re: Which format for Partition Table Viruses (PC)
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Date: 21 May 91 07:49:47 GMT
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tony4@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Anthony H. Galway) writes:
>(be assured that I have also done a LOW level format in cases when the
>partition table was hopelessly infected).

Uh, what do you mean ?  There is NO virus which will "hopelessly"
infect the partition table - all PBR infections can be removed without
any formatting at all, although sometimes with some effort.

Disinfection may not always cure all problems - if the virus in
question is the variant of Stoned which stores the original PBR at
(0,0,2) a low level format may be necessary on some machines - PS/2 in
particular, I think.

In the case of Azusa, Bloody and a few other viruses, not all
disinfection packages are able to handle the problem, however.

- -frisk