Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:07:15 -0600 From: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@altech.ab.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Virus after install? Message-ID: <062d01bf1be6$bb8a6320$0307070a@shannon-s>
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Well.... I don't use booteasy. I'm using some other freebie boot manager. Sure it would be nice if NAV would add the profiles for a few common boot managers to its database though. In the meantime, I have the BIOS bootsector protection turned on, decent backups, and I install very little new software. Hey, it's possible that a virus may sneak past but I'm willing to take the risk - that's why a lot of us use unix isn't it? (highly configurable. Can't we ask the same thing of Windows Software Publishers?) Shannon -----Original Message----- From: Allan Ross <allanr@ssimicro.com> Date: October 21, 1999 10:56 AM >Turn off boot sector scanning? I think not. Does it not make FAR more sense >to have a representative of the FreeBSD team contact Symantec and request >that they add the profile of booteasy to its database so that it is properly >identified and reported? > >-----Original Message----- >From: tshannon <toddshan@holly.colostate.edu> >Date: October 21, 1999 9:15 AM > > >>I downloaded FreeBSD ISO from ftp4.freebsd.org. After performing the >>install, and getting FreeBSD to sort of run, I headed back to windows to >>do some homework. >> >>While booting, Nortons AntiVirus now reports the BLOODHOUND.MBR virus in >>my master boot record. >> >>The only thing I had done since the last boot was install FreeBSD. So, >>obviously, I have removed FreeBSD and got to work on removing the >>BLOODHOUND.MBR as well. >> >>#1: Is the Bloodhound.MBR FreeBSD's boot loader, and not a virus? > > >Yes. This is what NortonAV calls all suspected viruses that it doesn't have >another name for. This is because of what it calls it's 'BloodHound' >technology. > >It would certainly be nice to have the option to turn off boot sector >scanning ;-) > >Shannon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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