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harleyjockey

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Damaged Hard Drive
« on: June 27, 2006, 11:51:16 AM »
My system crashed due to a worm and several other viruses.  If I remove the hard drive will this cure my system or will there still be viruses in the system?
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Re: Damaged Hard Drive
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2006, 02:30:03 PM »
Viruses only live on media like hard drives, floppy disks, USB keys, etc.  Not in processors or RAM after they've been powered down (so-called "volatile memory").
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Dead_reckon

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Re: Damaged Hard Drive
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2006, 03:43:16 PM »
just format the hard drive, no more viruses, or anything
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GX1_Man

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Re: Damaged Hard Drive
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2006, 04:26:20 PM »
Have a read here. You may not need anything so drastic:

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1149948530
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