From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 4:41:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stress.tig.com.au (stress.tig.com.au [203.109.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCB614CAA for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 04:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alanr@tig.com.au) Received: from tig.com.au (p43-max9.syd.ihug.com.au [206.17.105.107]) by stress.tig.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA12865; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 21:40:53 +1000 Message-ID: <37ECB4BE.E38D9387@tig.com.au> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 21:40:46 +1000 From: alanr X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.B. Langston III" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Norton AntiVirus 5.0 References: <000501bf0729$cefb6a20$5a15b4d0@tca.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's interesting when you say that you didn't have this problem with 3.2. I had this very same problem when I installed Norton (version 5 engine) using FBSD 3.2 -so maybe you were luckier. McAfee doesn't suffer from this problem, so I've stuck with it (and 3.2). At a guess the bootmanager is writing to the boot sector to set the active partition flag , which is where Norton is getting it's knickers in a knot. Alan "J.B. Langston III" wrote: > Norton anti-virus 5.0 with the latest definition updates detects the 3.3 > boot selector as the bloodhound.mbr virus. I didn't have this problem with > 3.2, but now, even when I get the latest virus definitions from Norton, I > get the same error message. Is this an oversight on your part, or should I > contact norton for further assistance? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message