RE: What is the absolute worst that a virus can do?

From: Sawacres (Sawacres_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:21:02 -0800

Hi there;
Nothing will blow up in your face, it is generally recommended to
repartition then format your drive, then reinstall either through a system
restore disk or windows disk depending on what you received with your
computer.

Ron

"Sash" wrote:

> I have just spent the last twenty four hours installing/uninstalling,
> loading. backing up and unbacking up..all for some awful virus that I
> couldn't get rid of.....
>
> PLUS I discovered Zone Alarm is messing up my system, and discovered it does
> that with other systems as well. So anybody having strange freezes please
> look up zone alarm.
>
> I would like to find out what is the worst that a virus can actually do? Is
> it true that they cannot actually damage your hardware? And is it also true
> that you allways can ultimately do a comlpete clean wipe/install and it will
> regenerate your computer back to new condition.
>
> I have never had such a problems.
>
> Thanks
>
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