But if you *do* go into the CMOS setting and enable the BIOS anti-virus, make
certain you disable it if you ever need to reinstall Windows 95 again. Windows
95 writes to the hard drive (and the Master Boot Record) in such a way that
many, if not most, BIOS anti-virus checkers detect as virus activity, and your
Win95 installation (or reinstallation) will not be successful.
Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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On Monday, February 23, 1998 20:11, Roy G. Schriftman [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
> In addition, after you have cleaned this virus. The next
> time you boot-up go into the CMOS settings, usually with the
> Delete key or whichever key it says during the RAM check.
> Then enable anti-virus, this locks the boot sector against
> any boot sector virus.
>
> > G. Raymond Skogland wrote:
> >
> > > When I booted up my computer this evening, I received
> > > the following message from McAfee -
> > > I have the NYB.A Master Boot Sector Virus. How do I go
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