Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:40:29 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com> To: Mike Johnson <mjohnson@browz.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virus now in my boot record Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002181634580.17154-100000@boris.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002181623080.17154-100000@boris.netgate.net>
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I apologize for my rant. Not enough of something today I guess. There's probably a way of telling Norton to see the new version as "normal", but seriously, I'd call or write Symantec about it. They've had plenty of years to fix this and they need to hear about their red-hot-poker-annoying problem from customers. Dave On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, wellsian wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:29:20 -0800 (PST) > From: wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com> > To: Mike Johnson <mjohnson@browz.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: virus now in my boot record > > I would call Symanted and yell. That message is just telling you that > Norton's "bloodhound" misfeature found a change in your MBR. NOT that it's > a virus named "bloodhound". If it's a recent copy of Norton then > double-shame on them; this is an old problem with norton and was one of > the many reasons I purged it from my systems long ago. I swear, next time > I'm on DeAnza... <grrr> > > Annoyed Dave > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Mike Johnson wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:16:43 -0700 > > From: Mike Johnson <mjohnson@browz.com> > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: virus now in my boot record > > > > Help.... > > I have a Win98 system with 2 hard drives.. C: for my win 98 and I formatted the D; and installed FreeBSD 3.4 without any major problems...upon rebooting for the 1st time after installing FreeBSD, I received the following virus notification for NAV.. > > > > "Master Boot Record infected with the 'Bloodhound.mbr virus" > > > > NAV could not remove it... > > > > Have you heard of this happening before?????? > > My system was clean before the install of FreeBSD 3.4.. could your CDROM have been made with this virus? > > > > Also, Win98 comes up only and I have no option to boot from FreeBSD or Win98... is this Normal and If so how do I start FreeBSD? > > > > thanks.. hope to be using this alot in our Firewall development. > > Mike Johnson > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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