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    trojan or boot sector virus?

    sorry for my english
    today a trojan (perhaps )inserted into my system, i don;t remember the name of the trojan. norton antivirus caught the trojan and put it into quarantine but asked for a restart. after the restart the pc cannot boot either from the cd or the floppy, what i should do to remove the trojan??????
    please its urgent i can;t work!!!!!
    thnks...

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    More specifics please. Do you get a boot screen at all? Any error message? Can you get into bios? Make/model of computer?
    Probability factor of one to one...we have normality, I repeat we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

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    i can boot but the system craches after reading the memory. it says cannot boot nothing else, i don;t know model of motherboard...
    if it is a boot sector virus, what i should do to remove it?

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    A boot sector virus infects the boot sector of the hard drive, not the bios. A boot sector virus would allow you to boot from floppy or cd.

    You could try resetting the cmos to defaults. There should be a jumper, or you can remove the battery for a few seconds. You could also try swapping the memory for known good. Could be you have bad RAM.
    Probability factor of one to one...we have normality, I repeat we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

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