Re: Linux as virus?

[Jason Hale <jhale cyberramp net>]

Glenn,

   Do you have the antivirus option installed in your CMOS setup?  If
so, then any program that attempts to write to the master boot cylinder,
which LILO does, will be rather crudely interpreted as viral activity. 
But that probably doesn't account for your loss of network ability.

Jason Hale

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Glenn Evanish wrote:
> 
> I set up a dual boot W98/RH 5.2 per the instructions on troubleshooters.com
> (someone introduced it on this list) on a hard drive I had bought just for
> the occasion (just pulled the power on the existing one).
> 
> I expected LILO to ask me which system I wanted on the first reboot, but it
> went staight to W98, so I rebooted with the boot floppy I'd just made.  To
> me horror, I got a message from BIOS that it had encountered a virus!
> 
> Thinking it was impossible to have a virus when the only thing I had was
> W98 and RH5.2 on a brand new disk, with some fear and trepidation, I just
> told the BIOS to go ahead with the boot.  RH came up and everything was fine.
> 
> Everything, that is, until I tried to ping the card.  It tells me
> "Destination host unreachable."  Not only in LInux, though, but also with
> my old HD and NT!  In other words, as far as I can tell, I really did
> something to the BIOS that made all networking immpossible.
> 
> Has anyone out there run into the same thing?  I'm talking about an Asus
> P2B mainboard.  This is the third machine that I've installed Linux on
> using that same CD, so it's still very hard to believe that I've installed
> a virus.  But then, what the heck knocked out my network?
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