VIRUS W95/CIH.1003a NOT MUCH TIME LEFT B4 IT'S 2 LATE

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

I'm writing on behalf of my friend here.

He recently got the W95/CIH.1003a virus, and can't get rid of it. He has gone to the mcafee.com site, and was given this info (verbatim):
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Removal Instructions:

Use specified engine and DAT files for detection. To remove, boot to MS-DOS mode or use a boot diskette and use the command line scanner such as:
SCAN C: /CLEAN /ALL
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The question: How do you use this command, everytime my friend uses it he just comes up with a bad command error.
I told him to try running the command in:
C:C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
But he keeps getting the same error and he only has till the 26th of this month till his computer is GONE. There are no files on the computer to locate. The virus is located in the BIOS. Can you format the BIOS and re-install it, or how do you use the above command.

Haste in your response is greatly appreciated.
Thanks



Nate
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!"

 

[bdunnbdunn]

The only successful solution I've found for repairing machines with the cih virus is a program called fix-cih and can be downloaded for free from

http://grc.com/cih.htm

Good luck
Bruce