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Information covering the removal of boot sector viruses from the hard drive.

virussmoptThe process needed to remove this type of virus from hard drive and memory is as follows:

NOTE: The instructions below are for Windows 95, 98 and ME. Users of NT, 2K and XP should not reboot their machine and should consult their anti-virus vendor for case-by-case support. The process below will not remove viruses from infected floppies, these must be scanned and disinfected after the memory and hard drive are clean.

* Boot the machine from a clean, write-protected floppy system diskette.
* This will take you to the DOS prompt (something like A:\> .)
* You now need to run your anti-virus scanner or disinfect manually.

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