This seems to be an old problem I have encountered with several different virus
checkers:
When you install them, they take a copy or checksum the mbr and boot sectors.
Each time they boot they compare the current mbr/boot sectors to the
copy/checksum, and yell "VIRUS" if anything has changed. Installing LILO, of
course, changes the mbr, hence these virus checkers calling it a virus!
Usually, it is simply a case of telling the checker to update its
copy/checksum, and all is well from then on. Hardly a reason to reccomend
against an otherwise good viruschecker! (although I am not recommending Norton
as a good virus checker - we use it at work & I have other reasons why I would
not recommend it!)
Trevor
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> The "local" Alaska Linux Users Group reports that Norton Antivirus and
> Bloodhound, Norton's newer "heuristic" virus hunter, is claiming LILO is
> a boot sector virus in newly installed dual-boot systems.
>
> So, for their next installfest, they will be recommending the McAfee
> virus scanner for linux that is there to protect windows.
>
> Civileme
>
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