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re: clean install
Tuesday, May 7, 2002 at 10:30 am
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Posted by Michael (2800 messages posted)


Not necessarily. If the virus is a boot virus, then it can remain in the boot sector 
after a format. If you want to be sure that you have a clean hard disk, get a set 
of AV disk such as those made from Norton AV and check out the hard disk.




On Tuesday, May 7, 2002 at 4:54 am, Lars wrote: >Is the harddrive clean, in regard to virus infections, if you use format (c:) command >from a boot-disc. Does Win98 leave system files on a formatted drive.



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