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On Jun 22, 2000 at 23:33, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>Aborted again and booted into linux. Then, I ran lilo. lilo overwrote
>the MBR and with it the virus code (I hope).
Would `fdisk /mbr' have the same effect?
>Now, someone tell me. When lilo writes to the MBR, what does it do with
>the stuff that was previously there? I hope it doesn't relocate it to
>some other location where it can get executed - like the boot sector of
>windows (of course, then I'd get the BIOS warning again).
It is relocated. It's put somewhere in /boot. A 512 byte file called
boot.mmdd where I think mm=month of save dd=date of save.
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