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darth_jarret

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« on: June 08, 2004, 02:44:00 PM »
I was checking my hard drive today and I found that my 80 gig with windows dropped to 74.5 gigs. I went to have it checked and they said that I must have some viruses that partition thier own personal areas on the hd and sets up the BIOS so that the hd's size is the normal part.  If you could understand my grammar my question is: Is there a virus scanner that ignores the bios and scans the full HD?
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geniusalz

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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2004, 03:15:00 PM »
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nemt

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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2004, 03:19:00 PM »
Who's "they?"

Because they know nothing about computers, apparently.
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mrRobinson

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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2004, 03:29:00 PM »
QUOTE (nemt @ Jun 8 2004, 07:19 PM)
Who's "they?"

Because they know nothing about computers, apparently.

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I was wondering the same thing...
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vidgms4me

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« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2004, 03:55:00 PM »
And how exactly would someone get a 3.5gb virus?

EDIT: embarrasingly bad typo fixed
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2004, 03:39:00 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2004, 04:25:00 PM »
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its called marketing... the same reason something is 3.99 instead of $4..... 80gb is 74.5gb
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« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2004, 04:58:00 PM »
dry.gif  god i hate those.  if the majority of the world were less ignorant, we wouldnt be plagued with these stupid scams.
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nemt

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« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2004, 05:12:00 PM »
QUOTE (havocaose @ Jun 9 2004, 09:25 PM)
they=every major harddrive manufacturer in the world dry.gif
its called marketing... the same reason something is 3.99 instead of $4..... 80gb is 74.5gb

Yeah, but "every major harddrive manufacturer in the world" would never tell customers the smaller than advertised drive volume is the result of a "super-virus" creating its own partition.

I don't even think anyone who's completed middle school computer class would tell you that...except as a joke.
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