Here is one for you........

[highrisemech]

I was doing a little work today on one of my computers.
I had to change out the hard drive on this machine to a used 4 gig that I bought today. Well I pulled the working hard drive and installed the new,
ran fdisk also formatted then setup Windows. When it got to the end of the set up windows would not initialize. I did get into safe mode, went to system then
performance. Just below the line where it says using MSdos capability the line read boot modified so I click on it, it said boot sector has been modified
systems with larger drives blah blah virus may cause....

So what do I do? The original drive that I pulled was just working perfectly.
I re- ran fdisk, reformatted but this time I shut down after reformatting the drive. Erased the drive your think right? right. Only this time I boot the computer with my antivirus bootable floppy and guess what? It found a boot sector virus named Joshi. something. Well my antivirus just ate that little bug for lunch, then setup windows and on my way trouble free.

Moral of the story, run your anti-virus on any and all foreign media,
hardrives floppies or whatever.

[Drig]

Amen to that, brother.

[Gintaras]

Originally posted by highrisemech

Moral of the story, run your anti-virus on any and all foreign media,
hardrives floppies or whatever.

True,

I've read on the net that someone got infected from brand new floppy disc he just bought from the store.

I was scanning all MP3's I have downloaded.
Better be safe than sorry.

[highrisemech]

I think I'm going to get myself in the habit of when doing a new build to check for boot sector viruses before I load the OS.Or before I start any repair job.
This is the about fourth time in five years that I got burned by one of these bugs. One of them kept me up all night before I finally figured it out.

[Gintaras]

I never got infected yet on my own. While selling on Ebay and posting on newgroups, I have received virii via e-mail countless times- just all these e-mails went to garbage.

Once I didn't have ZA for a couple of days, after I found 56 trojans on my HDD.

This by itself tells what you need besides AV.
ZA is on start up of my PC.


And I always suggest to those who d/l MP3s, MPEJs, anything else from not very known sources to scan for virii.
It's very easy to rename filename/extensions.

[cobra]

Good advice...