Serge Pineault wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I am running Mandrake 6.1 together with Windows 98,
> the latter mainly because of my daughter. I am
> thinking of installing an anti-virus program
> to run on the DOS side of my machine. Is there
> a chance the antivirus program will "see" the
> linux operating system (e.g. via LILO in the
> master boot record or anywhere else for that
> matter), think there is some sort of infection
> and attempt to do something about it?
>
> Any suggestion about which antivirus to use
> is welcome (price, effectiveness, etc...). I
> am thinking of getting Computer Associates Inc.'s
> InoculateIT Personal Edition.
>
> Happy new year to all,
>
> Serge Pineault
InoculateIT is also a free download, don't have to buy it, just register
it. Several antivirus products have trial downloads so you can see which
one you like.
They don't see partitions that windows can't see. If you update LILO at
some point, an antivirus package may complain about the boot record
being changed. If you wrote new LILO, then have it accept the new
record.
Right now, I'm using PC-cillin for my main antivirus. I think it's the
best behaved, of the current releases out, that I've tried. I have 2
others that I scan with once a week. I found that each has different
strengths in finding virus/trojan. Remember that anit-virus products
are reactive. They are updated to find things AFTER those things have
found someone's system. A clean scan doesn't always mean that there
isn't something nasty on your system.
