The facetious answer aside, the real question here is usually more one of “How do I ensure I have a clean boot floppy?
As with so many issues concerning viruses, the important thing is to be prepared *in advance*. As with backups, a current, clean boot disk should be a standard part of every personal computer system, as there are other occasions than when facing a real or suspected virus infection where being able to boot your computer to a “known good” state are useful or desirable (e.g. you accidentally delete your disk-compression driver from your hard disk). As with backups, a current, clean boot disk is one of the standard parts of a personal computer system most commonly missing. The important thing in preparing a clean boot diskette, especially where it has to be used with a (suspected) virus infection, is that it must *not* run a single byte of code from your hard disk. This means your boot floppy must contain all the basic operating system files, device drivers and configuration commands necessary to make your system minimally usable. This diskette must be prepared on a system that is, itself,
