To solve such problems you must remember that virus writers are unconventional thinkers writing to fool conventional minds. Most people faced witha virus in memory which interfears with running the cleanup program would call a tech and pay $40+. I cheated told fProt to clean the boot sector and ignore memory then I rebooted the box. Went three rounds for good measure than on the fourth pass ran the scanner full out check everything. also as a precaution against burrowing viruses I use a script for a clean install of fprot from a directory not in the path running from a directory whose name is specified at run time and removed after the program runs. sometimes winning means being a sneekly little hacker. CWSIV On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:27:22 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> writes:
The Wednesday 2003-10-29 at 15:46 -0500, lee wrote:
Interesting CWSIV, but no adverse effects booting while the virus ws still in your boot sector ? A windows virus in a Linux boot sector...
No. The virus was surely in the Windows boot sector, that is started by lilo, not in the lilo boot sector, which usually is on the mbr. Running lilo doesn't affect boot sector programs for the other systems.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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