OFF: virus help

[Neil Ward]

If it's not detected in the BIOS then it's a failed hard drive. What
make/model and how old is it? Hard drives are not the most reliable pieces
of hardware, I've seen quite a few dead ones myself, one failing over a
period of a few minutes, gradually losing files and slowing down the PC
dramatically.

I hope you had a decent backup, or nothing valuable on it.

Neil.

----- Original Message -----
From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: OFF: virus help


> Having seen various messages about viruses pass by the list, I thought
> maybe those with experience could offer advice.
>
> Last night, after copying some CDR's I shut down the (Win 95)computer.
What I
> saw was massive and prolonged hard disc access followed by a message
> "Unable to access drive C:" (That's the system drive on my PC) After
> that it failed to pick up the boot drive on bootup. I put in a boot
> floppy, did a SYS A: C: and then booted from the hard drive. I got the
> system up and immediately upgraded the McAffee data files. I then tried
> to upgrade the McAfee product and got a failure mssage, followed again
> by massive hard drive activity. This time I powered down. Now even with
> the boot floppy I can only get DOS and the A: drive up. It can't see the
> hard drive at all and it's not detected at the hardware boot.
>
> Lucy checked her work machine and found BADTRANS B virus and had it
> cleaned.
>
> So the question is whether these rather worrisome symptoms are
> consistent with that virus or whether it's something else.
>
> Cheers
>
> FoFP