Post #314978

Author: lordjedi
Parent topic: If you had access to any of the following anti-virus programs, which would you choose?
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Date created: 31-Mar-2008, 6:02 PM

If it's a boot sector virus (which aren't typical these days), simply overwriting the boot sector with a good one (by using a floppy) will fix that. No need to format the drive in that case.

If you do need to format the drive that fully, you'll have to do a low level format (writes all zeros to the drive). That'll take quite a bit longer to do than a normal format though.