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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