If you have a nasty virus that you can’t get rid of does that virus infect all of your computer or just the Hard Drive? I am going to order a new computer and wanted to rob the ram from my old comp (3 years old) and put it in the new comp will that work? What about the graphics card? Its not a factory graphics card can i sell that or is that infected with the virus?
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well it hides in your ram/hard-drive, but doesn’t do nothing to the graphics card or sound card. When it virus effects your computer it just goes in your registry files and then copies it and then they start to steal your information.
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When the computer is off, the infection is only in the data on the hard drive. Worse case, you can always wipe out the data on the hard drive.
Graphics cards can’t have viruses on them, despite the fact they have memory, because graphics cards memory clears up every time you shut down your computer.
The memory in RAM is volatile, which means that the data (the virus, for example) needs to have electricity to survive. The reason why the virus remains in the RAM, is that the virus loads onto the RAM at time of boot, thus it is a boot sector virus. The virus itself does not get into the RAM until it is loaded into RAM and re-activates. So the RAM from the old computer should be safe to transfer to a new computer.
The damage done by a boot sector virus is damage to the files that boot the computer, including the MBR (master boot record). The virus cannot remain alive itself in the boot sector, but the damage it does, remains as a corruption. It is best if you have an "A" floppy drive, and then wipe the hard disk from a non-windows level, also called, the DOS level, even though this is an inaccurate or misleading description. Lets call it, the pre-windows loaded environment, which is controlled by BIOS. You can download any number of free disk wiping utilities that can be run at the pre-windows boot level to a floppy and then insert the floppy, changing the boot device to A drive as first boot device, and then boot right into the floppy and initiate a wipe of the hard disk.
Then, the hard disk can be used again, and repartitioned, reformatted by an operating system to clean it and restore the MBR and original boot records.
You might want to look at this page here as it contains bootable files to do things like format the drive as FAT32 which is recognizable by XP and I think, Vista:
http://www.bootdisk.com/
You can first nuke the hard disk by deleting and then creating a new primary partition, then do a FAT32 format and that will clean the hard disk up and prepare it for an NTFS install of Windows.
get an antivirus program free such as avg and get rid of it one will surely delete it.