Chernobyl perhaps, but have you considered the possibility that you're having some sort of hardware failure along with your virus problem?
IIRC, Chernobyl would re-write the firmware of a computer, but it relied on a certain chipset existing in the targeted machine.
How old is the computer?
Was just wondering if a virus could contribute to a hardware failure.
Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a tremendous coincidence to have occurred at the same time? Unless I mucked up a reboot?
This is when I wish I knew more. Times like this are reminders that I’m not as good as I think.
It’s a 9 yo Dell that won’t take more than 500 megs.
The C: drive has only software on it except for mail.
All other files are on another, external, drive which I turned off immediately on finding the virus.