remedy

Well, since you say you can't get it to boot, you have 3 steps.

Boot with your Win98/95 boot disk, and run fdisk /mbr at the a:\ prompt. If you have a boot sector virus, this may clear it up enough to get the computer booted.

If that doesn'twork, you will need to go to another computer that has internet access, and download a virus checker with the latest signatures. two good ones that fit on a single floppy disk are Inoculit Personal edition from www.cheyenne.com, and f-prot from www.f-prot.com. Boot your machine with your boot disk, and run the most rigorous scan you can.

These two programs should be able to clean most of the distructive viruses, and restore your system, but take note of exactly "what" viruses or worms they have cleaned, and look at the above sites to see if there are any additional steps you need to restore your system.

A lot of viruses attack the windows system registry, and not only do you have to get rid of the virus, you also have to repair theregistry before you can get back to normal.

The best solution is to backup all of your data, fdisk the hdd, and re-install all your programs. Purchase a good virus scanner and update the virus definitions, then relaod your data and run the virus scanner through it all.

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You really need to copy the data onto a zip drive or something similar, reformat the drive and reload the operating system.

Maxwell