Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 15:58:07 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIRUS in ISO images? Message-ID: <20021006225807.0635D5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Oct 2002 00:58:24 %2B0200." <20021004225824.GB1478@gicco.cablecom.ch>
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> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 00:58:24 +0200 > From: Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Oct 04 at 23:13, Olivier Boniteau spoke: > > > I've taken a virus (bloodhound.mbr) in the following > > mirror: > > Where is the virus claimed to be located? > > I had an installation with the FreeBSD boot selector. And one > scanner (maybe norton 2 or 4) claimed there were a virus in the MBR. > When I booted from another disk that scanner installation didn't > complain about any virus... Yes, this was a pet peeve of mine with Norton prior to V5. It reported the MBR as infected with the "bloodhound" virus, but when you looked up the virus at Symantec, it was simply something unexpected in the MBR and the FreeBSD BootEasy MBR was not something Norton expected. Norton stopped doing this when I went to V5 and I have not seen this bogus warning since. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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