Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 15:04:53 -0600 From: "Allan Ross" <allanr@ssimicro.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Virus after install? Message-ID: <000901bf1c07$ebbf6100$8457f7c7@manager.ssimicro.com> In-Reply-To: <19991021201155.B341@marder-1>
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Well, rather than hope that someone is pokeing about on this I have posted a
question to the Symantec tech support page. Here is a cut/paste of my post,
I will post their reply when I get one.
<quote>
I use an operating system called FreeBSD(www.freebsd.org). One of the
install options of this software is to create a multiboot install with the
current OS (win95/98 for example) This is achieved by making changes to the
master boot record. It has been reported in one of the mailing lists
(questions@freebsd.org) that this change is subsequently detected by Norton
Anti-Virus as a virus (Bloodhound.MBR). Can the Norton dat files be updated
to properly recognize the multi-boot software that is available out there?
Is research already being done in this area?
Thanks!
</quote>
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mark Ovens
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 1:12 PM
To: William Melanson
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Virus after install?
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:13:56PM -0400, William Melanson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Allan Ross wrote:
>
> %
> % 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?
> %
>
> No...
>
> If the good people at Symantec are commercial vendors of said sotfware
> (which of course they are). It is they who should take the liberty of
> contacting the appropriate bsd representatives in regards to their
> anti-virus, multi-platform functionality (or lac thereof).
>
This has come up before, about a month ago. In that thread someone
appeared to be implying that they would contact Symantec.
>
>
>
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