From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 14: 5:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from castor.ssimicro.com (birch.ssimicro.com [199.247.51.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284A714FA9 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allanr@ssimicro.com) Received: from manager (yeti.ssimicro.com [199.247.87.132]) by castor.ssimicro.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA00258 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 15:05:27 -0600 (MDT) From: "Allan Ross" To: Subject: RE: Virus after install? Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 15:04:53 -0600 Message-ID: <000901bf1c07$ebbf6100$8457f7c7@manager.ssimicro.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <19991021201155.B341@marder-1> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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! -----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. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message