virus trashing LILO?

1997-11-17 Thread Gustaf Erikson
This is something I saw on Usenet: that a virus can infest the boot sector of a Win95/Linux machine and trash Linux via LOADLIN. Am I being terribly naive in thinking that the same might apply when you boot via LILO? As far as I can remember, my LILO resides on the bootable part of my Linux

Re: virus trashing LILO?

1997-11-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Gustaf Erikson wrote: This is something I saw on Usenet: that a virus can infest the boot sector of a Win95/Linux machine and trash Linux via LOADLIN. Am I being terribly naive in thinking that the same might apply when you boot via LILO? As far as I can remember, my