Uncreative Labs

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

Back in "olden days" it seemed to eb easier to clear viruses
I have my system set to be virus aware
but apparently " big brother" never heard of the NYB virus
I have to use a Hiren' s boot cd with McAfee to restore my pc yto " bootability" But scanning a floppy is not a choice.
I am sure the virus is coming from a floppy
but the programs I have fould don't look at floppies.

I went to my own "wayback machine " an old cd of old files
and may set up a system JUST to scan floppies.
Probably using a write-protected bootable floppy. and two floppies.
but how do I do it on a newer system that has only one floppy? This one has no space for a second.

Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 274 Location: USA

wow, glad i aint the only one who managed to somehow have an nasty infection of nyb. guess one these days, i'll format all my flops and be more careful, thank god i have cd-roms in allmost all my desktops, so i can just burn software on em and install them from it. i have NOD32, it detects nyb when i stick in a floppy and acess the drive, but i dont get an option to remove it, and it locks up the system when its found the virus, have to wait 3 mins for it to respond, solution is to format from the prompt and hope nothing important is on the disk. hmm, mabey a set of read only disk with dos and f-prot may be a good idea, or an old pentium 1 machine with dual flops and a cd-rom for booting hiren then f-prot. the nyb virus was made in 1995, so f-prot is new enough to detect it. ive had it infect xp machines and cause them to not boot on occasion, booting hiren and using a boot fix util(replaces mbr with standard one) fixes it.

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

I will set up a system with wto floppies.
I have dug out back copies of Mc afee.

I was hoping to find something easier to do.
Avast supposedly will do it
but it always said " no media"
and the company did not give me a real answer.

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

thic can be used with anoy OS

when MY xp loops and does not start I boot from an older hiren's, cd and run mcafee and it finds the NYB virus and permits the system to work again,
BUT until today I could not scan floppies.
BUT now I can previously i set up a system with two floppies
this is much easier.

start hirens boot cd ver 8 or older
choose antivirus tools
choose 3) manual scan
it will go back to a slim menu
hit escape "it will say all files copied to r:\tools
you will be ata dod prompt r:\

r:\ cd\tools do a dir
see the scanpm ? run it it will list the options
first run scanpm /all b: ( your floppy is B )

scanpm /clean /many b:
after it cleans and removed the viruses
it will prompt you to insert another floppy or hit escape
just keep inserting floppies

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

well it worked yesterday
but todal r:\tools was always empty
BUT when asked to scan another drive
type Y and then B
mcafee onm hiren cd.
that workes

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

I first reported that I had used the files from the mcafee section of Hiren's boot cd ver 8.0 to scan many floppies.

then my choosing a scan option ,then B ( ne other nasme for drive a Smile

then after scanning the floppy and y(scan another) then B, I could scan many floppies

However previously I had reported an EASIER way ,
typing the scan name plus /all /many
but everytinme I looked in R:\tools, it was empty..
what did I do differently?

my hard drives were connected.
I put a small hard drive on another controller
and unplugged my c and d drives.

I did the same thing:
boot from hiren';s ver 8, started mc afee and 1 scan
1 scan / clean.
and when I dropped bak to a r: prompt as described previously, the files were in r:\tools.,
Now I can add the newer DEF files.

somehow having a hard drive caonnecter prevened me from getting thge files from r:\tools

this method can be uses, I think, to extract programs from the cd
if there is another way tell me..