Thank you to all the responses I received regarding the Monkey virus. Thu Apr 16 22:53:05 1998, [log in to unmask] (Uzi Paz) wrote: >The Monkey virus encrypts the MBR so that you cannot access the hard-disk >when booting from a clean diskette. >Here are instructions that should be of help to you: >Get F-PROT AV software (free for private use!) from: >ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/virus >The file name should be something like: fp-228b.zip >(you may get it from any other simtel mirror as well). I was able to get fp-228.zip (f-prot v. 2.28) from filemine.com. >Make a (clean) diskette with the following files from the f-prot package: >english.tx0 , f-prot.exe , sign.def . Version 2.28 gave me an error message that sing.def was not compatable with this version. I needed to also include the file sign.asc (from the same zip packet) to get the program to run. >Boot your PC from a clean diskette, and then put the diskette with F-prot >files and run: >f-prot /hard The command "f-prot /hard" uses the default setting of giving notification of viruses without disinfecting. Using the command "f-prot" I was presented with a menu of choices of operations (much easier to use than McAfee Virus Scan or Vscan with DOS). I was able to select scan and clean the hard drive, F-Prot found the Monkey and got rid of it. I can now boot from the hard drive or from floppy and access the hard drive. Thanks for the direction. If anyone cares, I really liked how easy and effective F-Prot was to use. Why is it I had never heard of this one before? >It should work. >Uzi Paz -- Martin Kniep Scottsdale, Arizona, USA It's not whether you win or lose, [log in to unmask] It's how you place the blame. [log in to unmask]