From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 06:05:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA22473 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 06:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from erinet.com (eri-shell.erinet.com [207.0.229.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA22467 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 06:05:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jamie@localhost) by erinet.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id JAA08628 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:04:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 09:04:02 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Clark To: FreeBSD Questions mail service Subject: BootMgr a virus? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello good people, I have FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE and Windows 95 on my system. I have been experiencing some crashes in Win95 that CrashSheild of WinProbe caught with increasing frequency. I had been downloading some software from the net and thought maybe a virus had slipped down the line. On my old computer, I used InVircible v6.01C. It was released before Win95 so I when to the net to get an update at http://invircible.com/. The new version 6.12C was only available as a detector of viruses. I ran it, and it says that I have a B1 type virus (boot sector) and that my partition table had also been affected. Knowing what BootMgr does, I wondered if InVircible was just detecting BootMgr? McAfee Viruscan doesn't find anything, but on the InVircible web site they had a published paper written by a COMPAQ engineer that Anti-Virus software like Viruscan do a poor job of finding viruses they don't have data on. If someone else could verify that InVircible detects BootMgr as a virus, then a could rule out viruses as causes to my problem. I would appreciate the assistance of all who would take time out to help me. Thank you, Jamie -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. -------------------------------------------------------------------- jamie@erinet.com; http://members.tripod.com/~mindysue/ 40 Newton Drive, Pleasant Hill, OH 45359-9603 (937)676-2856