Re: Issues in switching to Debian
It disabled writing to my floppy disk, for one thing. The ppid points to
xdm. In fact, in top it reports its command line value as "xdm" instead
of (what you see in ps) "-:0"... which I figure is garbage.
Not that I'm an expert, but from what I gather, it is (at least) an MBR
virus, and therefore I'd expect just about anything would detect it (I'll
borrow some Anti-virus software and try it tonight). But what this thing
has done, if anything, to my linux partitions (and lilo, of course, has to
be shot) is the issue I see as most important right now.
--
quiet rob
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"Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> What makes you think this is a virus? I don't think you would be able
> to disinfect a Linux virus with 95. What is the process that is loading?
>
> On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Rob Collins wrote:
>
> > ...and a fairly larger problem: I've discovered I have a virus on my
> > machine. I figure I can get rid of the virus by loading up and
> > disinfecting it in Windows95 (blech) -- but it may or may not be
> > infecting my Linux installation (it -appears- to load as a child process
> > to xdm on init)... b4 I do any install I want to know that I've
> > disinfected my system, but don't know how to go about that in Linux.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated. :)
> >
> > --
> > quiet rob
> > -----------
> > "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann
> >
> >
> >
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> Wayne Cuddy
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