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From: dwe29248@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek William Ebdon)
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Subject: Re: Hong Kong on MircoTough dist. disks (PC)
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Date: 10 Jun 91 17:21:19 GMT
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One thing that Mr. Doss forgot to mention is that although Central
Point Anti-Virus v1.0 can easily romove the Asuza virus from a floppy,
it cannot remove the virus from a hard drive.  The only way to
disinfect a hard drive is to redo the low level format because the
virus infects the boot sector and the dos partition.  A high level
format will not remove the virus, nor will simply removing the dos
partition with the fdisk program.

Derek Ebdon