Hi, Chad --
A few months ago I contracted a virus (fortunately, harmless) from an
old machine that lodged itself in the MBR of several dozen of my
floppies -- 1.44 MB, 720k, 1.2M and 360k -- and even the hard drive
of my AT (30 MB). Interestingly, though, even though it could infect
360k floppies when used in a 1.2 MB HDD, it was unable to infect the
20 MB HDD of my XT. I don't recall the name of the program, but I know
that there was a program that specifically was able to remove MBR
viruses (freeware) from the DOS Simtel site. This was the only way
I could remove an MBR virus from my AT -- barely. My virus was called
"WelcomB.A", and it took me quite awhile to go through all the infected
floppies to remove it. All it required was to read the floppy in a
drive with the virus, and bingo, it infected the drive and any other
floppies that would come in contact with that drive...
I seem to recall that there are lots of free programs that remove
specific viruses... even the one you've mentioned. Just check out
Simtel...
Jerry [o:--] "The" IBM AT/5170 model 339 [--^~---] 9600kbps/30M HD
*1986 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| [ =====_] 512k RAM - 8MHz
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