How do you fix a virus that shuts down AV programs?

[JOHN BREZNAU]

I have a virus which slows everything down to a crawl.
why don't they ship rescue disks like they used too?
how do you delete a boot sector virus when you don't have one?

 

[W.S. Blevins]

I have a virus which slows everything down to a crawl.
why don't they ship rescue disks like they used too?
how do you delete a boot sector virus when you don't have one?

What virus do you have? How do you know you have a boot sector virus?
What, if any anti-virus are you using that doesn't provide the option
to make rescue disks? Can you be a bit more vague?

 

[dave]

I have a virus which slows everything down to a crawl.
why don't they ship rescue disks like they used too?
how do you delete a boot sector virus when you don't have one?

You don't.

You reformat your drive, including the boot sector, and
try, try again...

 

[Conor]

I have a virus which slows everything down to a crawl.
why don't they ship rescue disks like they used too?
how do you delete a boot sector virus when you don't have one?

Boot using bootdisk with write protect tab enabled. Type FDISK/MBR at
command prompt.

Also F-Prot runs off two floppies.


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[JOHN BREZNAU]

Thanks for the help, turns out that I did not have a boot sector virus, but
a startup worm virus thing. After booting in safemode I was able to clean it
from a networked computer. Had 12 different viruses! Attached to 300 files.