I recently read on this mailing list the instructions to use FDISK /MBR
for removing the Monkey virus. DON'T DO THIS ! ! !

While this is a fine method for most of the boot sector viruses,
according to the documentation by F-PROT, since the Monkey relocates the
FAT, FDISK/MBR may overwrite parts of the FAT.

Use F-PROT /HARD instead (running it from a clean diskette as instructed
earlier).

Hope it is not too late.

Uzi Paz

> > Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:12:14 -0700
> > From: "MARTIN J. KNIEP" <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > Help!  I have a 386 which I am setting up as my second system to use
> > primarily for e-mail.  I have run McAfee Viruscan on the system and it
> > tells me I have traces of MONKEY_B Virus in memory.  It instructs to turn
> > off and start with a system-bootable disk.  No problem, I insert a system
> > disk (containing IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and COMMAND.COM) which I have determined
> > to be virus free on another machine.  The system will boot to an "a:>"
> > prompt but when I either try to switch to "C:" as the active drive or run
> > "dir c:", I get an "invalid drive" message.
>