Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:24:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: NIcky Lai <nickylai@sirius.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ?? Virus detected on CD FSB_330A ??? Message-ID: <19990401082421.G413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01BE7AD7.2BC5E760.nickylai@sirius.com>; from NIcky Lai on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 11:59:58AM -0800 References: <01BE7AD7.2BC5E760.nickylai@sirius.com>
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[this message forwarded to FreeBSD-questions] On Tuesday, 30 March 1999 at 11:59:58 -0800, NIcky Lai wrote: > I just bough the FreeBSD Version 3.0 CD and the book Complete FreeBSD 2nd > edition. I am doing backup of the CDs before I install the FreeBSD, during > the process the Trend PC-cillin 98 program with virus Pattern #502 detected > a virus on CD number one as follows: > > Virus name: PRESTO * > TOOLS\OSBSBETA.EXE (OS-BS\OS-BS.COM) > TOOLS\OSBS135.EXE (OS-BS\OS-BS.COM) Interesting. I wonder what the information in parentheses means. > On the other hand, I am beginning to read the book before I do the > installation. The name PRESTO is being use as an example in page 46 > and may be other pages as well. Could this be a coincident that the > word use in one OS will misinterpreted as virus in another OS? > Anyway, I like to point it out because you people know it much > better. Well, the book uses the name presto (not PRESTO) as the name of one of the example systems, but I can't see why this would be a problem. These files are quite old: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 31290 Sep 12 1993 osbs135.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41111 Aug 4 1994 osbsbeta.exe I don't even know what they're intended to do. According to 00_index.txt in the same directory: osbs135.exe An alternate boot manager (not the one FreeBSD uses) osbsbeta.exe A more advanced BETA version of the above > Please let me know if there is any problem. There's certainly no problem unless you use them in a Microsoft environment. Since there are no instructions, I'd suggest just ignoring them altogether. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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