It's not that NAV (Bloodhound is a component of NAV) can't understand the boot
sector. It's that NAV is seeing that the boot sector has changed, and is
telling the user. Changing the boot sector is EXACTLY what many viruses do, so
this is EXACTLY what you want NAV to do, in most cases. You can turn this
functionality off.
The reason McAfee doesn't do the same thing is that it doesn't scan the boot
sector like NAV. In other words, it doesn't do as good a job.
Russ
Mike Corbeil wrote:
> Civileme 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.
>
> I think NAV has been doing this for several years. I don't think that NAV
> actually thinks LILO is a virus, but instead merely sees the mbr is not as
> it would be on a system with only MS OSs installed, that is, NAV is merely
> warning the user of something it doesn't understand and therefore can't
> properly interpret for the user.
>
> With the increasing popularity and use of Linux on dual-boot systems,
> though, NAV or BH should definitely allow for other boot managers being
> installed in the mbr.
>
> It's good to know that someone's on the ball though - McAfee.
>
> mike
>
> >
> >
> > 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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