call Norton... I had that happen with McAfee and all it was, was a load
problem,
Bug ! as it were. you could also start from you clean "BOOT DISK"
-----Original Message-----
From: Information Technology <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 2:47 AM
Subject: virus that McAfee can't detect & Norton can't clean!
>I've had McAfee AV on my Pentium clone running WIN95 for some time but
>yesterday I installed Norton AV. Right away it announced that I had NYB
>Boot virus on two hard drives. It asked if I wanted to proceed with
>cleaning y/n. I pressed yes. It repeated the question. I pressed yes again,
>it asked the question again, over and over. Finally I pressed no, and it
>STILL asked the question again over and over till I had to reset the
>computer. When it rebooted the computer, Norton AV automatically loaded,
>and asked me the question again, over and over! At this point I was
>completely locked out of my own PC!
>
>Finally I thought of using F8 to step through the start up files and delete
>Norton AV from the boot sequence. Now I'm afraid I still have a boot sector
>virus that McAfee can't detect, but Norton can't clean.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Paul Walker
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