Nimda Virus on my Win98SE

A new hard drive would remove the virus, getting a new car will fix a bad muffler.
(Over kill)

Here's how to remove it from McAfee.com Online Services Support
http://tinyurl.com/33lv

Here's Norton's solution
http://tinyurl.com/33lx

There is no need of a new harddrive. You can always get rid of the virus by formatting the existing harddrive. Only thing u will lose is your data. if it is not important you can go ahead and format. If you want more details on formating lemme know.

A new harddrive may not get rid of the virus, some including nimda (sounds like this is the one you have) can also reside in the bios. Just running a web search for nimda I found 36 sites that with nimda in the title, symantic was one of the first to come out with a fix for the nimda virus, check out their website.

The Nimda virus can be hard to remove. You need to download the Nimda removal tool from www.symantec.com - go to the Security Response tab, scroll to the bottom right side and click on the expanded list of removal tools, and download the remover - preferrably on a different machine that is not infected. If you are in a network envirenment, disconnect all machines from the network and clean each one before reconnecting the network cables. Boot the machine in safe mode and run the removal toolfrom the floppy. After it completes, you should be able to load your antivirus software.

Vickie

A brief reminder: Once you have cleaned up your system by using a Nimda removal tool (I prefer Symantec's) and installed/updated your antivirus program, don?t forget to install the security patches for your OS and any Microsoft apps that you have installed (i.e., Outlook) as well.

I've never read that this virus infects the BIOS. Anyway, don't forget to write protect your floppy disk. Plus if there has been network shares created by the virus the removal tools wont change them. This needs to be done manually. To have the bestchance of success, closely read and follow all instructions before starting the removal process. Since you have McAfee here is the link to the removal instructions it will include the place to download the tool.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99209.htm

You do not need a new hard drive. You should be able to get rid of everything by using your "hopefully you can find it" recovery CD. You should run your recovery CD and if you do not have it, perform fdisk. You should reinstall your Win98 and thenWin98SE.

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