As Kevin describes below, this is the same as my situation. I had been using
RH6.0 with NT 4.0 in a dual boot situation -- no problems -- upgraded to RH
6.1 and had the virus message ( which thanks to all who have responded has
convinced me that it's not really a virus) and the loss of being able
> *** You don't and the nasty thing is that NT needs to have the MBR for
its
> own boot. You should've read the Linux NT HOWTO to find out how to
> install the dual boot with Linux and NT. Unless you have recovery
disks
> for NT I'm afraid the only solution will be... to re-install NT.
I'm kinda
ect: Re: Virus in Master Boot Record
>turn off the virus detection in the BIOS ! scratch it, don't use
>it , whatever.
>
>They are dumb, and you will experience many errors because of this (unless
>you never change things on your system) , from what you have posted the
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Paul R. Watkins wrote:
->
->
->I installed RH 6.1 a week or so ago. I have a virus detection program in my bios
setup. It
->detects a virus in the masterboot record. I can get by this and boot linux and
everything
->works fine in Linux.
*** You installed LILO on the MBR a
I had a similar virus detection program .. it thought that LILO was a virus
and gave me problems. Disabled the virus scanner because it was more a pain
in the butt and took up more system resources than was necessary.
Zach
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I believe the virus protection in the BIOS prevents writing to the MBR or
messes it up. I believe also its recomended you shut the virust
detection off when u install NT or Linux or any OS
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Chris Dowling wrote:
> sorry, but I can't see the problem :)
>
> try making a linux boot disk. then format your mbr. I don't know how to
> do this under linux, but if you have a dos boot disk then you can usr
> "fdisk /mbr". Once you have cleared it, use your bootdisk to boot into
> linux, and ru
Ooops... Missed this part. The virus warning showed up when you installed RH 6.1 and
now NT
won't boot? Are you sure it is a virus or is it "just" your BIOS detecting that the
boot
record changed as it now appears. You should probably do a virus check from a boot
floppy to
verify that you
turn off the virus detection in the BIOS ! scratch it, don't use
it , whatever.
They are dumb, and you will experience many errors because of this (unless
you never change things on your system) , from what you have posted the
alert would be because you installed Linux and the BIOS is
sorry, but I can't see the problem :)
try making a linux boot disk. then format your mbr. I don't know how to
do this under linux, but if you have a dos boot disk then you can usr
"fdisk /mbr". Once you have cleared it, use your bootdisk to boot into
linux, and run lilo to restore the boot record
One of the "emergency recovery disks" that you get with Norton AntiVirus (IBM, etc.)
among
others will clean boot sector viruses. I think there is even a downloadable "recovery
disk"
on the the Symantec site, at least there was at one time.
"Paul R. Watkins" wrote:
> I installed RH 6.1 a week
I installed RH 6.1 a week or so ago. I have a virus detection program in my bios
setup. It
detects a virus in the masterboot record. I can get by this and boot linux and
everything
works fine in Linux.
How do I remove this virus -- it's a nasty one in that I can't boot NT (dual boot
system)
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