Jason Gunthorpe writes:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Arup Mukherjee wrote:
>
> > I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what
> > some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my
> > disks, as linux sees them, are screwed up. However, if you boot dos or
> > windows 95 from the hard disks (via lilo, which still works), both dos
> > and w95 still have an accurate idea of the partition information and
> > work fine. I guess they're using a copy of the partition table as
> > opposed to the real thing.
>
> This is VERY typical of a boot sector virus, you should get a fprot or
> some other scanner and sweep your MBR from a clean boot floppy. I had
> exactly the same symptoms on one of my computers when I had the Monkey
> virus.
>
> Jason
>
This was the right answer. I had been infected by "stoned"
... As per the suggestion of someone else on this list, I got pfdisk,
wrote down the values, booted the debian rescue floppy, and then
used linux fdisk to rewrite the mbr's partition table. Once I got that
far, removing all traces of the virus with fprot was fairly easy.
Many thanks, to everyone who offered their advice. I thought
I'd describe the outcome in case anyone else bumps into this problem.
-Arup
