Make sure you get him a virus scanner the next time around. :) I suggest Norton AV 2002. Much better than McAfee, and it's autoupdate feature actually works all the time. http://www.centralcommand.com is supposed to have a good one too, but I haven't tried it. Norton is nice because it scans any file that hits the hard drive. Just for kicks, I got myself a copy of that virus that used readme.eml, and as soon as it hit the drive, Norton quarantined it, I tried everything I could think of to execute that virus, but nothing worked. Norton is a good product. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Munir Nassar [mailto:nassarmu at redconcepts.net] > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 10:20 AM > To: TC-LUG > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] win98 and virus > > > what is the exact error message? what is the command that you are > using? which partition is it? in recent times i have not come > across any > virusses this distructive (it would seem like our precious > customers AKA > users, virus writers are getting less technical) > > -munir > > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, johndmiller wrote: > > > Thank you for all input. I have tried to mount it as vfat > and get the > > same error. I will try the dd idea, if it works great, > other wise he ends > > up with another 10 gig HD and that is ok too. > > > > John Miller > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >