[ale] lilo virus :-)

Tomas tomas at kahuna.clayton.edu
Sun Sep 3 11:52:58 EDT 2000


I ve seen a similiar situation with winguard.  it detected a ext2 file system as a virus on a floppy i handed to a friend.  (of course i forgot at the time he wouldn't be able to use it)

tomas


On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:40:52AM -0400, Phrostie wrote:
> A while back i decided to up grade my mandrake 6.0 with the latest turbo
> linux(PHT).  the first time i went to reboot an anti virus program kicked in
> from the mother board (ChipsAwayVirus) telling me that i had a virus in the
> boot sector of the drive.  i assumed this was a lilo problem but could not get
> past the error prompt.  i check the options in the motherboard setup to see if
> it could be disabled.  if it's there i did not see it.
> 
> i went back to mdk 6.0 and all was fine.
> 
> the other night i tried mdk 7.0 and the same thing happened.  this time it will
> let me continue to boot but i have to go through several prompts first.
> 
> has anyone ever had this problem?  is there  a fix?  lilo?  motherboard? 
> jumpers?????
> 
>  i've looked on google for anything relating to this with no luck.
> 
> all suggestions appreciated.
> 
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