Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:03:22 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com To: tucoghby@hotmail.com Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, greg@lemis.com Subject: Re: i386/23747: bloodhound.MBR a virus that is on the install discs that can't be removed with norton anti virus Message-ID: <200012240203.SAA22388@spammie.svbug.com> In-Reply-To: <20001224110434.E68547@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On 24 Dec, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 23 December 2000 at 17:12:19 -0700, tucoghby wrote: > > I wish I could figure out who wrote what here. > I'm having the same problem... except the message got even more garbled when I got it. So how about I put some punctation in to help everyone. >> From: opentrax@email.com >> To: tucoghby@hotmail.com >> CC: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG >> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:01:13 -0800 (PST) >> >> This is not good. >> You say you suspect that your disk is infected by a virus. >> What evidence do you have of that? >> >> Nothing you have said indicates you have a virus. >> >> >> Well hows this for starters, norton has detected the virus on the first >> disk. It is a relitivly new virus. It also has told me that the virus is >> memory resident and resides in the bios of the system. >> The virus has caused access problem with both d: and c: drives before i >> installed your product. I did not have this problem. Now i do. >> >> Well, this is confusing. You say you had Norton do a virus check. Norton reports the virus is in your BIOS, and, your C: and D: drive. You also seem to suggest that the virus was on your system before you installed FreeBSD. So, how is it that you suspect that there is a virus on the FreeBSD CD? >> I have also ran >> sophora and it finds a virus as well that resides in the bios that is to >> deap to remove. >> so now that we have that out of the way can you make any >> constructive sugestions to eleviate the problems that i have >> experianced since the install of this product?? >> Can't help you. You state that you had problems before you installed FreeBSD. So, I can't think of any way to help with a problem like this except to replace your BIOS. Jessem. grog@lemis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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