Re: [LI] Virus warning after installation > Pls help

["Archan Paul" <archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Anand Raman,

This is a familier problem of "Trident ChipAwayVirus", which raises false
alarm while the system is booted from the Linux partition activation from
the LILO. This only happens while Linux is loaded in the native partition
(as u have to do it in RH distribution).
The best solution is to disable it from BIOS or continue with this dam
warning at the booting time. Try out the "boot from MBR" option. It may
solve the problem.

Archan
archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.bigfoot.com/~archanp



----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Raman <araman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux India Mailing List <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 8:26 AM
Subject: [LI] Virus warning after installation > Pls help


> Hi guys
>
> I installed RedHat 6.1 from the November PCQ cd .. However after the
> install when i tried to restart the computer it started giving me a
> Virus warning
>
> The exact message is this
> "Trident ChipAwayVirus has detected a boot virus on your hardisk"
>
> Prior to this installation i had SuSE 6.0 running happily on the system
> with a idle dos partition which i used for some archiving purposes from
> Linux only .It has been ages since i have booted into DOS and on top of
> that I havent installed Windows95 .This is the first time this warning
> is getting flashed from the bios
>
> Questions
> *********
>     1.    What could be the possible causes for it ..
>     2.    Will doing a fdisk /mbr help
>     3.    Is there anything equivalent to fdisk /mbr in linux
>     4.    Will reconfiguring LILO help
>
> These are just a novice guesses . Gurus please advise
> Thanx for u r time and help
> Bye
> Anand
>
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