[ale] lilo virus :-)

[Frank Zamenski]

Interesting. Okay, by "... anti virus program kicked in from the
motherboard...", are you referring to a BIOS MBR antivirus 'scanner', one of
those useless cheesy mini-pgms loaded from CMOS? If so, you should be able
to disable that entrirely (and you should, those things are essentially
useless, and will often if not always interprete LILO as a mbr virus as
well).

Yet, you say you can't? Strange, what kind of motherboard and PC is it? Is
it Win and Linux dual-boot? Did the drivers CDROM also have one of those
dumb minimal AV pgms, too? (like PC-penicillin, or something like that). If
so, that might be the culprit, can you get rid of that?

Yet, you say your original Linux boots fine, but the other(s) don't? Per
chance, is it an innoculation kind of AV pgm, that perhaps tagged the
original load as safe? If so, your new Linux load, without telling the
scanner, would of course then be seen as tampered with -- i.e. a 'virus'.
Might be using a simple checksum algorythm (dumb, useless freebie pgms).

If none of this is even close, post more info pls. (Yet somehow I smell MS
here... :-)

-fgz


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phrostie" <phrostie at nownetworks.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <snafuu at freelists.dhs.org>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 9:40 AM
Subject: [ale] lilo virus :-)


> A while back i decided to up grade my mandrake 6.0 with the latest turbo
> linux(PHT).  the first time i went to reboot an anti virus program kicked
in
> from the mother board (ChipsAwayVirus) telling me that i had a virus in
the
> boot sector of the drive.  i assumed this was a lilo problem but could not
get
> past the error prompt.  i check the options in the motherboard setup to
see if
> it could be disabled.  if it's there i did not see it.
>
> i went back to mdk 6.0 and all was fine.
>
> the other night i tried mdk 7.0 and the same thing happened.  this time it
will
> let me continue to boot but i have to go through several prompts first.
>
> has anyone ever had this problem?  is there  a fix?  lilo?  motherboard?
> jumpers?????
>
>  i've looked on google for anything relating to this with no luck.
>
> all suggestions appreciated.
>
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