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Re: Do I have a virus?



i have never heard of a linux virus, don't think one exists.. there are
worms, backdoors, exploits ..but virus?? naaaah.

you should take this as a sign, drop win* and use linux :)

(saw you had probs with debian, maybe try something else first? debian is
hardly for beginners)

nate

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, 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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