Bleah ia easy to remove: 1) boot from a freedos floppy 2) FDISK /MBR
it is in the MBR, so if you rewrite it, the virus is gone. I had problems with Bleah in the past (sent it to some clients) and I got knowledge of it. BTW, it is a harmless virus... Alain Em 24-05-2010 19:03, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros escreveu: > Hi, > > This is just to report how things evolved with regard to disk > partitioning and formatting. > > I certainly learned how to do it. Thanks again to several list > members who helped! > > However, the story did not end there. Disks would not work as > expected, and corrupted files kept appearing. > > After formatting half a dozen disks 2-3 times each, in 3 > different computers, I suspected someting else was wrong. So I > took the disks to a computer technician for a virus scan and, > sure enough, they all were infected by "W32/Hybris.worm.B". > > The computer is working well now. However, to be extra safe, I > also ran F-prot, and although my copy is from 2005, in one disk > it reported something that the technician's antivirus had missed: > Master Boot Sector: "Bleah.D". Of course I'll repartition and > reformat that disk. > > In 12 years of MS-DOS plus 3 years of FreeDOS, this is the first > time I had a virus -:( > > I'll use FDSHIELD for some time. Also, I downloaded CLAMAV, but > have not been able to run it yet. > > In case anyone has other security recommendations, they will be > very welcome. > > Marcos > > > -------------------------------- > Marcos Favero Florence de Barros > Campinas, Brazil > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
