From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 10:44:46 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 7D4BE14C89 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:44:41 -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 LAA02297 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:44:40 -0600 (MDT) From: "Allan Ross" To: Subject: RE: Virus after install? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:44:13 -0600 Message-ID: <000201bf1cb5$0df547a0$8457f7c7@manager.ssimicro.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <000901bf1c07$ebbf6100$8457f7c7@manager.ssimicro.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Got a response from Symantec on this. Cut/Paste is attatched. I don't use a dual boot system at the moment but if anyone can send theses people some live data, they look like they're willing to update accordingly. Allan Ross - >> 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? Hello Allan Thanks for using the Norton AntiVirus discussion group. We have had another report of this and the customer was asked to submit a sample so that a change could be made. At this time I do not have information on weather or not they followed through. If you would like to submit you can contact 541-465-8420 for information on how to accomplish this. Thanks Randy Rejda Symantec Online Technical Support -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Allan Ross Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 3:05 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Virus after install? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message