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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot Manager or Virus in BootRecord ? Date: 9 Aug 1996 20:19:05 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ug6fp$4l8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <yBwLqMD4F99aLz3@borki.zug.use.ch> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E BORKI@zug.use.ch (Reto Burkhalter) wrote: > McAfee Virusscan detects a Parity Boot B Virus in my Mem > and on the Harddisk when I boot DOS. > > Question: Is that really a virus that I have been detected > or is it the FreeBSD Boot Manager that irritates > the Virus scanner?? Likely a virus. > If it is a virus, can I clean the disk and > reinstall the bootmanager????? Run the bteasy (DOS) program that is provided in the tools/ subdir on the CD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)