Frank
11-24-2003, 10:35 PM
I have an old 366mhz system I want to install Red Hat 3 on. (I know its old but I wanted to started with an older version to get to know it before I upgrade to later versions of Red Hat).
Anyhow, this was a Win98 system I had suspected had some virus on it. I fdisked the mofo and formated the disk figuring it would kill anything on it. WRONG. I noticed the floppy drive seemed to only work intermittent and got progressively worse while I was trying to run fips.exe. Looking through the BIOS settings I found where there was a setting for an antivirus that was disabled. I enabled and rebooted. During bootup, it discovered there is a virus in the boot sector. It doesn't tell what the virus is and gives me the option to put in a bootable disk and restart. I do this but it just brings me back to the same screen.
How do I get rid of this virus if I don't even know what it is? Is it IN the BIOS? it says to go to www.antivirus.com which is Trend Micro. There site isn't any help.
Anyhow, this was a Win98 system I had suspected had some virus on it. I fdisked the mofo and formated the disk figuring it would kill anything on it. WRONG. I noticed the floppy drive seemed to only work intermittent and got progressively worse while I was trying to run fips.exe. Looking through the BIOS settings I found where there was a setting for an antivirus that was disabled. I enabled and rebooted. During bootup, it discovered there is a virus in the boot sector. It doesn't tell what the virus is and gives me the option to put in a bootable disk and restart. I do this but it just brings me back to the same screen.
How do I get rid of this virus if I don't even know what it is? Is it IN the BIOS? it says to go to www.antivirus.com which is Trend Micro. There site isn't any help.