Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:56:43 -0600 From: Gary Message-ID: <20001229185643.A8404@linux.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] virus On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:17:26PM +0000 or thereabouts, Julia Maddocks wrote:

I have a fic motherborad (SD11) with a built in virus checker

When I boot Linux from floppy, the built in virus checker goes off and warns me a virus is present in the boot sector. I am using a new, linux formatted boot disc and don't beleive there is a virus there

any ideas?

The built in BIOS virus checkers will do that occasionally when it checks . I went into BIOS and disabled mine. <p> -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 21:49:58 -0600 From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" Message-id: <00122922011300.02628@krr> Subject: Re: [SLE] virus Virus checkers will suspect a virus when the boot sector (Master Boot Record - MBR) changes. Eg. when lilo changes the MBR for loading Linux and windows when the MBR previously had the windows loader. This probably does not apply to booting from a floppy however the boot that is on the floppy is probably different from that on you hard disk (perhaps you have the HD boot only windows) and the virus checker may be expecting them to be the same. If this is the case then setup lilo on the floppy to boot either Linux and windows. And when this works sucessfully (the warnings will still continue) then use lilo to write to the same boot up to the MBR. The virus complaints may stop then but then you probably will not have a reason to boot from a floppy except in an emergency. Kurtrr On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Julia Maddocks wrote:

I have a fic motherborad (SD11) with a built in virus checker

When I boot Linux from floppy, the built in virus checker goes off and warns me a virus is present in the boot sector. I am using a new, linux formatted boot disc and don't beleive there is a virus there

any ideas?

tia

Julia

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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 01:32:05 +0000 From: Tor Sigurdsson Message-ID: <20001231013205.C8200@dustpuppy.suse.starf.rhi.hi.is> Subject: Re: [SLE] virus Actually, most BIOS-virus checkers only check the BMR against a standard M$ boot-sector. They will barf at anything that is not made by M$ ( including PC-DOS et al ) -tosi On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 12:53:14PM -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

Motherboard virus checkers do not do anything but warn you of changes to the MBR. They have no virus definitions and can not detect real virus's. It would be best if you just disable it. It does nothing of real value. I am surprized that MB makers still even put this waste of bios space in the bios. :)

* Julia Maddocks (julia.maddocks@zoom.co.uk) [001229 15:53]: =>I have a fic motherborad (SD11) with a built in virus checker => =>When I boot Linux from floppy, the built in virus checker goes off and =>warns me a virus is present in the boot sector. I am using a new, linux =>formatted boot disc and don't beleive there is a virus there => =>any ideas? => =>tia => =>Julia => =>-- =>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com =>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com =>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq => -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:brosenb@suse.com *************************************** SuSE Inc. 580 Second St Suite 210 Oakland CA 94607 U.S.A Tel: 1-510-628-3380 EXT:5086 Fax: 1-510-628-3381 *************************************** "My opinions are not a reflection of the opinions of SuSE Inc."

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