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A while back i had one of our office computers get attacked by a virus. When i spent as much time on it as i could, i took it to a shop and the tech there told me that some viruses particualrly the worm variety dig in and even after a deep format leave some sort of residue. He said the end result is that on some occasions the only option is a new hard drive to fix the problems. I do not know how often this is the case or just how true this is, but since i have always backed up important stuff to a second hard drive and used it from there.

My HD from PG is safe and stored in a cabinet in the studio, and the whole program is copied to two other locations one i use daily and one as a secondary backup.



Thats a new one to me about a virus leaving some sort of after effect, unless its a virus that targets the bios or something like that.
First hint of a virus or something wrong in windows I reinstall my acronis backup.

Maybe someone could clear up this point about still having a virus after effects after doing a disk format?

Joe

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