It's highly unlikely you have a boot sector virus. The behavior of TCAV you just described is quite normal (It's a stupid piece of software *flame suit on*). All it does is look to see if the boot sector of the PC in question has changed since the last time it had a look at it, and warns you if it has. Since you reformatted, the boot sector in your hard drive has changed, and thus TCAV gives you a warning. It's quite safe to turn TCAV off in your motherboard BIOS (usually access by pressing DEL or F2 during boot up). Most people do, as it's giving you little to no protection from any virus you may be infected by.
Cheers,
Matt
At 20:05 22/11/2002, Brenton Fletcher wrote:
Hi!
im having trouble with Mandrake Linux 9.0
linux does a bios data check, then trend chip away virus, gives me a message saying that a boot virus has been found. this hasent happend in microsoft windows. do you think tcav is just reacting to linux or is ther actually a boot virus? there have been 2 reformats both "warm" in the sense that i did not repartition then turn off wait then repartition.
bye
b.f.
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