On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Andrew George wrote:
>
> > Does Bloodhound have an inoculate option?
> > Every time I do something to LILO Nortens tells me the boot sector has changed,
> > and asks me if it was intentional or not, then gives me the options of
> > inoculate or repair
> > Check to see if one of the options in Bloodhound is automatically fix or warn
> >
>
> I don't think you want to inoculate, if this causes actual changes. If it merely
> means to always ignore this mbr change in the future, then inoculate sounds like a
> good idea. If it causes the mbr to be altered in any way, since inoculation
> typically means to inject something to cause the inoculation to happen, then don't
> inoculate, or at the very least create a boot floppy for your Linux configuration,
> first.
>
> It would be safer to make sure you have a good boot floppy for the Linux
> configuration, first, in any case.
>
> mike
Yep, actually the inoculate option in Nortens means replace the image of the
MBR that Nortans checks against with a current image of the MBR
Repair means replace the MBR with the image Nortans already has
>
>
> > Just a thought
> > Andrew
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > > The "local" Alaska Linux Users Group reports that Norton Antivirus and
> > > Bloodhound, Norton's newer "heuristic" virus hunter, is claiming LILO is
> > > a boot sector virus in newly installed dual-boot systems.
> > >
> > > So, for their next installfest, they will be recommending the McAfee
> > > virus scanner for linux that is there to protect windows.
> > >
> > > Civileme
> > >
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