Re: Wierd Virus...boot?

From: "Dave Cohen" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>


| If the keyboard is giving a problem, this should show up running any
| application in xp.
| A virus is a software thing (unless it attacks the bios). Thus formatting a
| drive will elliminate, code fragments may be present scattered over the hd,
| but will never get executed.
| Dave Cohen
|


All malware are some form of software even it is like the CIH (Chernobyl) which wipes the
BIOS of an affected PC.

However, formatting a hard drive is a last-ditch effort and this draconian action should not
be performed as a knee-jerk reaction. In addition, if it was a Boot Sector infector
formatting is not the solution.

Yvonne specifically indicated "When I tried to write the serialnumber it started with the
same behavour as in Firefox." The first thing is to start with the simple tests/solutions
and from there other steps can be taken.

I really don't think it would be a smart idea to wipe a hard disk and reinstall an OS
because of a repeating key problem.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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