Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:04:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: tucoghby <tucoghby@hotmail.com> Cc: opentrax@email.com, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/23747: bloodhound.MBR a virus that is on the install discs that can't be removed with norton anti virus Message-ID: <20001224110434.E68547@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <F151VGqiFMzPOb37VYi000069cf@hotmail.com>; from tucoghby@hotmail.com on Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:12:19PM -0700 References: <F151VGqiFMzPOb37VYi000069cf@hotmail.com>
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On Saturday, 23 December 2000 at 17:12:19 -0700, tucoghby wrote: I wish I could figure out who wrote what here. > From: opentrax@email.com > To: tucoghby@hotmail.com > CC: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:01:13 -0800 (PST) > > This is not good. > You say you suspect that your disk is infected by a virus. > What evidence do you have of that? > > Nothing you have said indicates you have a virus. > > > well hows this for starters norton has detected the virus on the first > disk it is a relitivly new virus it also has told me that the virus is > memory resident and resides in the bios of the system. > the virus has caused access problem with both d: and c: drives before i > installed your product i did not have this problem now i do i have also ran > sophora and it finds a virus as well that resides in the bios that is to > deap to remove. These are bugs in your virus checkers. > so now that we have that out of the way can you make any > constructive sugestions to eleviate the problems that i have > experianced since the install of this product?? Well, you could report them first. The claim of a virus is a red herring. You asked FreeBSD to install its own boot block, a good choice if you're going to run more than one operating system from the disk, and Norton is too stupid to tell the difference between a bloodhound virus and a FreeBSD boot block. I had that on my Dell laptop 8 months ago, and all I could to was shut up that stupid virus checker. If you're having real problems, it's not because of that. Try to report them clearly and concisely, and somebody (not necessarily me) will help you. I'd suggest FreeBSD-questions, though, unless you can give exact proof of the nature of the bug. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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