Re: Where's this message coming from?

Thanks Barry -- I might add that the hard drive has been formatted at least
twice and 3 virus scanners run (in dos mode) and have all come up empty
handed. I'm unable to find any reference to virus protection in the boot
configuration.
rtm
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A virus module that you missed could be trying to modify the boot sector,
and boot sector virus protection could be turned on in the BIOS. If that is
the case (I can only speculate), the message is coming from the Virus,
because something is trying to write to the boot sector. That protection
can be turned off in BIOS setup, but I'd be hesitant to do so until I knew
what was trying to write to the boot sector (and why).


Robert wrote:

I have a A8N-SLI premium with AMD dual core CPU. I recently had a virus
which I've successfully removed but at boot up I get the message "You may
have a virus" or something like that and I have to press "enter" twice to
get the system to boot. Where does this message come from and how do I
get rid of it?


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