hi i wouldnt hold to much of what some tech`s from a company will say i had a gateway tech crash my hard drive and tell me it was my fault for listenin to him so i wouldnt pay to much attintion u can fdisk the partion and make sure u fdisk the (mbr) master boot record too that mite be were its at and then do a format and reinstall,iam sure if u go to freepctech they will have a boot disk u can down load and that sould have fdisk on it so good luck and have fun ,oh ps i aint sure about the master boot record mybe some one on the list can tell u the right typing for the mbr/ fdisk theres a space in there some were?jerry the fatboy crider ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geraldine Jones" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Virus > I did turn off the system restore and restarted the computer in safe mode. > I then did the AVG scan > again and it still came up with the virus detected. I talked to Gateway > again and they told me that > I could not reformat my computer with a virus on it. Does that sound right? > I am running Microsoft ME. > I was under the impression that reformatting would take care of my problems > if I could not get rid of the > virus any other way. Thank you for responding to this problem. > > "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware > programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. > http://freepctech.com/rode PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml