[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Do I have a virus?



If you ever need to remove Linux from a friend's PC again :-), run "lilo -u"
before removing the linux partition.  That should uninstall lilo from the mbr.

Nico


On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
> 

--------------------------------------------------------
 Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data.  
             Guess which has occurred.
--------------------------------------------------------
Nico De Ranter
Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE)
Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
e-mail: nico.deranter@sonycom.com


Reply to: