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Re: strange virus warning



On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:34:15 +0200
frank coldewe <colde89@yahoo.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I run woody since 2 Jears, sometimes I get when booting the system a 
> virus warning. (A red box appers an screen, something like: virus
> trend award has detected a virus on your system, contact antivirus.com
> or reboot the system with a empty floppy in floppydrive.)
> Don`t know how to stop this message, course I never had problems with 
> the system and no defects occurs on the system resulted by a virus.
> 
> Has anybody ever seen such a message on woody and know how to disable 
> this ??

This is the antivirus stuff that comes in the BIOS on your motherboard.
Enter BIOS setup to turn it off.

Most likely the message is just because it doesn't understand Linux
stuff.

HTH,
Jacob

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