From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 17:39:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from colemantx.com (mail.colemantx.com [63.64.122.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 740BC37BB49 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rarnold@colemantx.com) Received: from ronaldjr [63.64.123.140] by colemantx.com (SMTPD32-6.00) id A4483BA5027C; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:39:20 -0600 Message-ID: <000501bf7a75$6b9d5aa0$8c7b403f@ronaldjr> From: "Ronald G. Arnold Jr." To: "Mike Johnson" , "Kevin Oberman" Cc: References: <200002190033.QAA24347@ptavv.es.net> Subject: Re: virus now in my boot record Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:05:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I didn't look at Norton, but I have the same and knew what the cause was. When I had Linux LILO it only came up on virus scans and then it wanted to repair it, but I only made the mistake of repairing it once. If you do repair it, you should be able to use the boot floppies and upgrade, just leave everything as it is, just reload the boot loader again. Ronald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Oberman" To: "Mike Johnson" Cc: Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 6:33 PM Subject: Re: virus now in my boot record > Sigh. If you go to the Norton web site and look up "Bloodhound.MBR" > you will find that all it means is that the boot record is not > "normal" so it must be a virus. After all, who would use any boot but > a Microsoft boot? > > You can ignore it. Just answer "no" to keep Norton from re-writing > your boot. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message