From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 16:24:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0E537BB1F for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:24:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA01897; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:53:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:53:08 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mike Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virus now in my boot record Message-ID: <20000218165308.F21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <000201bf7a6e$a1b13640$0201a8c0@MikeJohnson> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000201bf7a6e$a1b13640$0201a8c0@MikeJohnson>; from mjohnson@browz.com on Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:16:43PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mike Johnson [000218 16:46] wrote: > Help.... > I have a Win98 system with 2 hard drives.. C: for my win 98 > and I formatted the D; and installed FreeBSD 3.4 without any major > problems...upon rebooting for the 1st time after installing FreeBSD, > I received the following virus notification for NAV.. > > "Master Boot Record infected with the 'Bloodhound.mbr virus" > > NAV could not remove it... > > Have you heard of this happening before?????? yes, but it's not what you think. > My system was clean before the install of FreeBSD 3.4.. could > your CDROM have been made with this virus? Please wrap lines at 70 characters. no. Norton has been mis-detecting this for ages now, your computer is not infected. > > Also, Win98 comes up only and I have no option to boot from > FreeBSD or Win98... is this Normal and If so how do I start FreeBSD? I guess you didn't bother to install a boot manager when FreeBSD asked you about it, try getting OSBS from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/osbsbeta.exe It's a nifty boot selector that should let you retroactively install a boot manager so you can get to both FreeBSD and Windows. > thanks.. hope to be using this alot in our Firewall development. We do too. :) welcome aboard, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message