On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Denis Havlik wrote:
> :>Try turning off the virus detection in your BIOS. (hellloooo!!) ;)
>
> On the other hand, he IS right - noone should cry VIRUS for LILO. Making
> some BAD publicity for those who do it could help.
What most of these BIOS boot sector antiviruses do is
do a checksum of the bootsector. They can detect if there
has been a change. If it has changed, a virus is assumed.
I am surprised there is no way to allow for a boot sector
change. A lot of things can go in the bootsector besides
LILO or the Win95 boot: Win NT boot is different, so
is System Commander and other boot utilities. I would
be quite surprised if this BIOS did not have a way to
cope with it. Maybe you ought to look at the BIOS code
yourself (and modify it with the flash utility). 8086
BIOS code is not hard to figure out.
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