RE: WAY OT--Crisis...virus! Need help

BROWN Nick (Nick.BROWN@coe.int)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:32:05 +0200


>My understanding is that it writes to your cmos, not the hard disk.
>If so, the disk will probably come up again once you flash the
BIOS.

http://www.stiller.com/cih.htm says that it overwrites the first 14 sectors
of your hard disk. If this is true then you will lose your partition table,
but not much else on most systems, where the rest of the first cylinder is
unused.

|\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw
| \| | |_ |\ You get the straight bits
But there's something missing in the middle

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