[Sderby] Video Card Help for SuSe 6.2

[Ashley Heath]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 07:54:48 +0100BST
"Laurie L Proud" <laurie at g0llp.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> During booting LILO his hardware virus detection on the motherboard
> got all exited. He's got a boot sector virus apparently. The only
> viruses he get's on a regular basis are the usual C**P contained
> in Windoze Outlook Express attachment's. So I do not believe what
> the virus detection system is telling me. Please confirm LILO does
> indeed has a bootstrap that look's somewhat like a virus, as I cannot
> believe anything he's picked up from the net could be running after
> booting from a SuSe boot floppy.
> 
> Many thank's 
> 
> Laurie
> 

Laurie,

The virus detection in the bios isn't really what it says, it basically checks the MBR on boot for any changes, since LILO has rewritten the MBR it will flag it. Normally nothing to worry about as long as you know what has changed the MBR as you do in this case.

Ash