i have never heard of a linux virus, don't think one exists.. there are worms, backdoors, exploits ..but virus?? naaaah.
you should take this as a sign, drop win* and use linux :) (saw you had probs with debian, maybe try something else first? debian is hardly for beginners) nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote: > > By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there? > symptom: lilo won't go away. > > it's phenomenal. I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge) > off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up! > Where is it coming from?!?! > > > > > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, > > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's > > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal > > win98 life: > > > > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command > > 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions > > > > Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in, > > and proceeds to attempt to boot debian. > > > > Could there be a virus here? > > > > I'd really appreciate a reply. > > > > Thanks. > > > > - David > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
