Re: Do I have a virus?
Rerun the win98 installation program. That will overwrite the mbr, and kill lilo.
It won't mess with your "normal life" win98 setttings either, except for maybe a few
very small things.
-Aaron Solochek
leko@cmu.edu
David Punsalan wrote:
> By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there?
> symptom: lilo won't go away.
>
> it's phenomenal. I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge)
> off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up!
> Where is it coming from?!?!
>
> > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
> > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
> > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal
> > win98 life:
> >
> > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
> > 2. completely erased linux native and swap partitions
> >
> > Yet...after restarting the computer...low and behold - lilo kicks in,
> > and proceeds to attempt to boot debian.
> >
> > Could there be a virus here?
> >
> > I'd really appreciate a reply.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - David
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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