Re: strange virus warning
On August 7, 2004 09:34, frank coldewe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run woody since 2 Jears, sometimes I get when booting the system a
> virus warning. (A red box appers an screen, something like: virus trend
> award has detected a virus on your system, contact antivirus.com or
> reboot the system with a empty floppy in floppydrive.)
> Don`t know how to stop this message, course I never had problems with
> the system and no defects occurs on the system resulted by a virus.
>
> Has anybody ever seen such a message on woody and know how to disable
> this ??
Some bios' have rudementary bootblock virus checking built in which you can
usually turn off in your bios' setup program.
Google for "bios virus" or "bootblock virus" for more info.
RJP
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