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From: Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Aborted again and booted into linux. Then, I ran lilo. lilo overwrote
> the MBR and with it the virus code (I hope).
i dunno how viruses work..but an observation...
if the BIOS virus warning is on...when lilo attempts to write to it..it shld
have given u a warning, rite?
>
> Rebooted the machine, and the warning was gone.
..coz mebbe lilo(+ - virus code) was written!!!
> Now, someone tell me. When lilo writes to the MBR, what does it do with
> the stuff that was previously there?
just overwrites it..
kishor
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