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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Satya wrote:
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> On Jun 22, 2000 at 23:33, Philip S Tellis wrote:
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> >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.
I think its not date but partion number, and partition type.
Rajen
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