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GD Virus...
RayB:
Every virus I've ever had I was able to clean off through a series of boots with anti-virus boot disks and full file check/cleaning.
You shouldn't really have to reformat unless the virus damaged your boot sector... (and make sure to scan your backups. you could have backed up the virus too!)
HaRuMaN:
After two hours of Windows Update... back up to speed, I guess. Now to reinstall MAME... *sigh*
danny_galaga:
correct me if im wrong, but if (like me) you only have your OS on one drive and anything important on another won't that be protection enough from viruses? just reformat that sucker and that's that. even if it doesn't protect from viruses, at least i'm protected from poxy windows crashes...
CCM:
Yea, I don't understand the need to reformat on a regualr basis. I've fixed friend's computers that were riddled with viruses and spyware and haven't had to reformat. To me reformatting is a last, extreme solution.
Sephroth57:
i just keep windows installed on my crappy 20GB HD i salvaged from an old computer. everything important goes on my 200GB HD. Usually nortan can handle most things but for some reason if it gets really messed up i can just format C: and its all good, viruses always hit the drive with windows on it, ive never had them bother my storage files