possible virus that won't let me boot up. how do a i fix

[Davegod75]

I have a friend who says she thinks she has a virus that won't let her boot her computer up.

Is there anything out there i can download and run from a floppy to scan and remove it?

 

[PeteRoy]

I don't know about that but you could connect her hard drive to a working computer and scan it through it.

You could also use a bootable cdrom or diskette to format tha hard drive and reinstall the OS.

 

[Trey22]

I know your topic description mentioned booting from a floppy, but here is an alternative:

Before going to the extreme of formatting and reinstalling the OS, try a bootable CD Anti-Virus disk.

Head over to www.ultimatebootcd.com, and scroll down to Antivirus Tools, it links to two choices.

 

[Davegod75]

thanks

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Davegod75
thanks

had a lady call the other day..said a virus would not let her boot up her comp..asked her to check all her power connections ,etc. ..her cat had tripped her power strip..as always..ymmv

 

[Paratus]

Thats funny - back in college my wife - fiance at the time - was telling me that the cat couldn't possibly turn off my computer when i came back and found it off. While she was telling me this the cat walked behind the computer stand and stepped on power strip and off it went

Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.