Re: Virus ?

["shyamk @ eth . net" <shyamk@eth.net>]

But , for at least 2 months after the dual-boot installation ..
the E: and F: did show up.They did the vanishing act only 
after my friend (who I said can be trusted) did his.

Thanks and Regards,
Shyam

Stan & Julie Rock (stanrock@uswest.net) said:


> Personally I think its something else.  Its seems appropriate to read that
> /dev/hda9 is drive D: and overlaps assuming drive E and F hence is why they
> don't show up.
> 
> Any virus checker can miss viruses.  There is no "sure" cure except toasting
> Windows.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "shyamk @ eth . net" <shyamk@eth.net>
> Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 8:48 AM
> Subject: Virus ?
> 
> 
> > I use a dual-boot Win98 - RH Linux machine , on a LAN
> > of Windoze machines.
> > When my machine was booted to Win98 , my friend , whom
> > I can trust , copied a folder into my machine (his machine
> > runs the latest version of Norton Anti-Virus 2000 .. I mean
> > that he downloads the latest updates).
> > We subsequently shutdown our machines , and packed off for the day.
> >  The next morning when we switched on my box , only the Win drives
> > C: and D: can be seen. E: and F: are missing !
> >  I boot to Linux and cfdisk-ed and got the following error
> > message from cfdisk :
> >
> > FATAL ERROR : Bad Logical partition 9 : Partition ends  before sector 0.
> >    Press any key to exit cfdisk ....
> >
> > And cfdisk showed no output ... I mean they did not show me anything ...
> > just the above error message.
> >
> > hda9 was D: , mount commands for hda9 work well. Same under Windoze.
> >
> > But as I said the problem is with the E: and F:
> >
> > Am I right in suspecting a Boot-sector Virus ?
> > Can Windoze have a Boot-sector Virus that Norton Anti-Virus
> > does not detect ?
> >
> >
> > Please guide me on this.
> >
> > Warm Regards,
> > (shyamk@eth.net)
> > Shyam
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