Dear Paul,
Here's a reference on the Stoned Monkey virus:
http://service1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/stoned.empire.monk.html
You might point out this link to your local computer service folks.
>From this description, it doesn't look hopeless. It looks like, according
to this description, you should be able to boot from the hard drive, back
up all the files you wish to keep. Then re-fdisk and re-format the hard
drive, restore your data, and you'll be fine.
An inconvienience, yes, but you shouldn't loose anything that you back up.
Do pay close attention, though, to any .EXE or .COM files you might want
to keep, so that you don't restore something that is infected, and end up
re-infecting yourself. You'll also want to make certain that any of your
boot diskettes are not infected. You may want to get a clean, bootable
DOS diskette from someone else, and keep the disk locked into the 'read-
only' mode.
Cheer up, there's plenty of hope!
Anthony J. Albert
On 17 Feb 2001, at 21:15, PAUL PAVLIK wrote:
> HI
>
> on my P166 /Win 95.... (with Norton's Anti-Virus too) i got the Stoned
> Monkey Virus. Now, the computer store says that they cannot do not know how
> to recover the drive.
>
> They just want to erase 2 yrs of work.
>
> THANKS for any help.
>
> Paul
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