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

["Anand Raman" <anandram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanx guys
For all the responses .
I think that disabling the virus warning is the best thing i can do as of now .
One more question..
Will it in any way effect Windows operation if i decide to install it at a later
day ( probably century).
Thanx
Anand

Sunit Mathur wrote:

> Hi
> That message appears because ChipAway thinks that the boot record has changed
> because of a virus whereas the actual fact is that Lilo has changed the boot
> partition...Just disable the virus warning option in BIOS because Linux is
> fairly safe from virii.
>
> Regards
> Sunit Mathur
>
> Anand Raman wrote:
>
> > 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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