I'm new here, so sorry if this has been asked a million times!  I need to know how to get rid of a boot sector virus!  My virus program never saw it and I'm TRYING to install a new harddrive and install W98.  Windows 98 won't install because of this virus - which now explains why my old drive was acting so strange!   Can anyone help???

Thank you very much in advance!

Louchats23Travel to the link below and follow the instructions carefully.

http://www.sophos.com/support/disinfection/mbrnvir.html

patio.    8-)

P.S. Buy some brand new floppies...this is the most common method of infecting the boot sector.Can you REFORMAT the HDD by using a boot diskette or CD?

There is an option on OLDER PC's their BIOS that has something to do with boot sector viruses, beats me what it does, but look for it none the less and see if it can help you.Thank you all for your replies.  I tried them without success, but did find some advice that worked on another help fourm....this is what it was:

I TURNED off the bios virus protection and it worked.  I am currently installing the OS then I'm supposted to go back into the bios and turn it on again.  I am guessing that I really don't have a virus but that the virus protection program  - being enabled- thought I did.....  just a guess though.   If anyone KNOWS how this works I really would like to know.


Thanks so much for your replies!

louchats22It may be a moot point in this case, but to get rid of a boot sector virus in Win98:

Boot with a Win98 setup disk that has FDISK on it

From the A:> type in

fdisk /mbr

and press enter. It will be fixed in less than 2 seconds.  

Boot sector viruses are unusual these days.I tried that and it did not work!  It kept sending up the message "boot sector virus  continue Y/N?"

Thanks anyway!

louchats23Did you use the tools that were supplied in my link ? ?

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I tried that and it did not work!  It kept sending up the message "boot sector virus  continue Y/N?"

Thanks anyway!

louchats23

I did  I was just responding to the other posts.

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I did  I was just responding to the other posts.

Disabling any kind of lame virus checking in the BIOS is always the first step. The method I gave you cannot work if you prevent writes to the area it needs to fix.