In actual fact this virus deletes your FLASH BIOS rendering motherboard useless unless of course your got a bios chip around.
----- Original Message ----- From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 1999 2:38 Subject: Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please... > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > after my kid was playing games on win95 yesterday > > evening i was unable to boot into Linux - actually unable > > to boot into win95 also... Looks like some kind of > > virus destroyed boot sector with partition table. > > > > i can remember approximate partition sizes and order. > > > > Is there any way to recover partition table and the system > > as well ? > > You got hit with the CIH virus. It was well publicized at least > a week prior to the detonation date (yesterday). All reports that > I have seen don't hold much hope for recovering without a full reinstall. > (hope you backed up your data..) > > It is an unfortunate fact that if you want to run Windows on a machine > nowadays, you must pay tribute to the antivirus gods or suffer their > wrath from time to time. > > -Mitch > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
