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  1. April 15th, 2002, 11:10 AM #1
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    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.
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  2. April 15th, 2002, 11:40 AM #2
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    [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


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  3. April 15th, 2002, 11:48 AM #3
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    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.


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    [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.

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    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?


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  5. April 16th, 2002, 09:44 AM #5
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    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.
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