virus trashing LILO?
This is something I saw on Usenet: that a virus can infest the boot
sector of a Win95/Linux machine and trash Linux via LOADLIN.
Am I being terribly naive in thinking that the same might apply when
you boot via LILO? As far as I can remember, my LILO resides on the
bootable part of my Linux partition, and handles boot to Win95 from
there. Can the MBR be subverted by a virus and wreak havoc on Linux?
Regards,
/g.
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