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King Grover
April 15th, 2002, 12:10 PM
I got one on this 98 machine and I cannopt get rid of the thing. I did the fdisk /mbr and rebooted and all was good until I tried to set the partiton as active and the warning came back up. How do I clear the BootSector of this machine. I want it dead.
freddy
April 15th, 2002, 12:40 PM
[quote]Originally posted by grover:
<strong>I got one on this 98 machine and I cannopt get rid of the thing. I did the fdisk /mbr and rebooted and all was good until I tried to set the partiton as active and the warning came back up. How do I clear the BootSector of this machine. I want it dead.</strong><hr></blockquote>

what warning are u getting? , is it the notherboard on board virus checker to see if any thing is writing to the boot sector?

if so disable it.

failing that please explane more


freddy
King Grover
April 15th, 2002, 12:48 PM
The BIOS did have the antivirus protection turned on. I disabled it and am trying an install again.

The message i would get would be half way through starting the install and it would alert with a message like "BootSector Virus Writing: continue y/n"

we'll see what happens now.


tanks
freddy
April 15th, 2002, 05:01 PM
[quote]Originally posted by grover:
<strong>The BIOS did have the antivirus protection turned on. I disabled it and am trying an install again.

The message i would get would be half way through starting the install and it would alert with a message like "BootSector Virus Writing: continue y/n"

we'll see what happens now.

tanks</strong><hr></blockquote>


logic say that it has to be that , what other prog would tell you that u were re-writing the boot sector?

was it a square that flashed?

hav,nt seen one of those that worked in years?


freddy
Sowulo
April 16th, 2002, 10:44 AM
This does sound like the default message many boards with BIOS level antivirus support display any time the boot sector is altered. With on-board antivirus enabled, you should see this message every time you change the boot sector. The message isn't telling you there is a virus. It's telling you something is screwing with the boot sector and if it's not you doing so on purpose, it may be a virus.