06-22-2011, 01:39 PM
olnacl wrote:
I just finished nuking and paving an old Dell 2400 that had the virus removal virus on it. I pulled the HDD and connected it to my Win 7 machine, ran Security Essentials and cleared the virus.
I don't follow you here.
"I just finished nuking and paving" = You reformatted the hard drive to completely erase everything and reinstalled the operating system and user's files carefully to avoid reintroducing a virus.
Then you "ran Security Essentials and cleared the virus". How was it that a virus survived the nuking and paving procedure?