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Re: Low Level Format
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Karl Gottshalk <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 6 Apr 1999 20:51:05 -0400
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I could not remember the virus I was trying to eradicate when I did a FDISK
/MBR and lost the partition table, but seeing this message reminds me that
it was a Monkey variant. Thanks for the links to the further info.

Karl Gottshalk

> Reasons NOT to use FDISK /MBR
> 1. Under an infection of viruses that don't preserve the Partition Table
> e.g., Monkey, reported at 7.2% of the infections reported to _Virus
Bulletin_
> for December '95, the last report for which I have data.

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