If I remember corectly, Monkey loads itself in the boot sector of the disk
and then starts to encode the FAT portion. As long as you boot from the
infected disk, there's no problem because Monkey is loaded during the boot
process and then decodes the FAT on the fly. When you boot from the floppy,
there is nothing to decode the FAT on disk so it shows up more less as an
unformated
drive. I don't know of any antivirus that can actually dissinfect Monkey and
decode the FAT again. In which case, your only option would be reformat the
disk.

Oh, and don't think Monkey is just a harmless nuissance and you can just
live with it. When you least expect it, it will stop working and render your
disk unreadable. Period! Then you MUST format and sacrifice all data on the
disk.

Hope this helps. Somebody let me know if I got any of the details wrong.
It's been a while since I've dealt with Monkey.

>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.
>
>What have I done wrong?  Do I need additional files on the boot disk?  How
>do I get this "MONKEY" off my back?
>
>TIA for any help coming down the line.
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