Have a client that has a gateway computer
Last week their tech support had her reformat & reload the hard drive using the restore cd for an IE problem. It didnt need to be formatted at all
I went over there & got her scanner, printer IP & email working among other things
All appeared happy
Win 98 SE OE & IE 5
I tested everything including email & know it worked.
She uses the same IP as me. She emailed me a day or 2 later to say that it is changing her email addy randomly & it sure as heck was.
Virus I thought.
She also said she had a master boot record problem once or twice
OK simple stuff, or so I though
Everything appears to work fine
I ran Norton antivirus on the dos level from disks I made on my system using current definition files, nothing
If I run fdisk from the C prompt it shows the hard drive partition as primary dos
If I boot to a 98 or 95 boot disk it says it cant find a valid fat32 partition & shows the partition as non-dos
If I try to rebuild the MBR it says "write protect error writing fixed disk"
Im perplexed with this. It has virus written all over it
any ideas??