Teke Tu a crit :

It sounds like you got that bios virus thing turned on. You have to understand that
Corel Linux will not give you any choice and put Lilo on the MBR. For the Bios virus
program or many winblows virus programs any changes not done by winblows on the MBR are
considered viruses.

There was a funny one at work on this. Some guy need to have Win 98 on a production computer
that was running PC Dos 7.0
I installed Win 98 on the first drive as well as the OS/2 boot manager to boot either Win 98 or
PC Dos. Later on the guy in charge was told by the virus program that there might be a virus
on the MBR which he let it remove. It turned out that the partition table was trashed and the
Win 98 was in a black hole. I had to restore the hard disk and reinstall Win 98.

The m{*filter*}of the story is that Symantec or the bios virus program should not be trusted if you
are serious about using Linux because they are winblows only shit.

As for Corel, if you have the first version make darn sure that you back up your stuff, specially
if the hard disk is big. Mine trashed my partition table. You'd be better off with Mandrake.

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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.setup: 25-Apr-100 Virus alert ....
by Teke T...@hotmail.com

*What* virus alert?  Corel ain't gonna be calling itself a virus.

My hypothesis is that your computer's BIOS has some code to flag
what might seem like suspicious code in, say, a boot sector.
LILO sectors tend to qualify.

But you must realize that, by no means, is this "virus alert"
universal.  Using only the information you've provided, we have
no way to no *what* is giving that alert.  We don't even know
whether you're another OS at the time and trying to start a
setup program, or whether you're using a boot disk, or CD...

Viruses are extremely rare [read:  close to nonexistent]
given sane computing practices, such as not running programs
sent to you in the mail, not using Outlook/Netscape/other
"smart" mailreaders, and so forth.  You probably don't have
one.

It's probably the LILO boot sector being flagged by the BIOS.
If so, disabling the check may or may not be possible; it all
depends on the BIOS.  See what settings it has.

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In <Et1FDnu00UwD10p...@andrew.cmu.edu>, on 04/24/2000
   at 11:41 PM, Leejay Wu <lw...@andrew.cmu.edu> said:

Hmm...  When was the last time you were on a corporate network?

I wouldn't use the terminology "extremely rare" here.  Of course, maybe
I'm just an "extremely rare" individual.  ;-)

Take care,
Duane

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