In a message dated 12/29/98 10:05:15 PM EST, kurtkilg(a)geocities.com writes: << For one thing, I've never gotten any virus. FOr the other, can't you get rid of boot sector virii w/FDISK /MBR? If not, what is a good way of getting rid of them? >> two notes here: you can use the /mbr switch, but if you are doing it off the hard drive, its useless. of course you'd have to boot off a clean floppy. i know in the case of pcdos7, sometimes you can run ibmavsh.exe which will immobolize some viruses like the D3 one. in that case you can run ibmavsh, run /mbr and then cycle the power and it's clean. in the case of monkey virus 2, if you run /mbr you'll lose everything on the hard drive! david