Are you saying that a virus that copies itself into RAM survives a shutdown?  For instance, your OS is running now, and on the last boot the virus copied itself into RAM.  You decide to reformat and reinstall, so you shut down completely, insert your bootdisk, then start the computer again.  The virus has survived the power interruption of the shutdown, and now reinstalls itself from RAM on your hard drive?

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>> Could you elaborate on the format not removing viruses. I have always
>> been under the impression that this got rid of viruses. Could you name a
>> couple that tend to remain after a format, also? Now you've got my
>> wheels turning.
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>Hey Tom, I'd like to try for a second besides howard following up. Try and
>think of it this way: Your computer has 2 places to store info, 1 the hard
>drive 2 the ram memory. so what these hackers have done is have the virus
>copy itself into a piece of ram every time you boot so if your format the
>drive it replaces itself back onto the clean drive when you reinstall and run
>your operating system.
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