Re: Virus in win boot sector

[ben]

this is what the f-secure site says about the chipaway virus:

F-Secure Virus Descriptions


                         NAME:
                              Chipaway


                        There is no virus known by this name to
                        F-Secure anti-virus products. However, this
                        'virus' is sometimes reported, because there is
                        a specific ROM BIOS with anti-virus
                        features, which displays text "Chipaway Virus
                        Enabled" during boot-up.

John wrote:

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:17:54AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Marcel Figuerola Estrada wrote:
>
> > Since I recently installed Woody, when I instruct LILO to start
> > windows, it appears a message from ChipAway virus which says that
> > there's a boot virus. I cannot clean this virus from windows because
> > neither of my antivirus detects it (I have Norton and Panda
> > Antivirus). I wonder if it would be possible to let ChipAway clear
> > this virus from linux. If it is possible, how?
>
I vaguely remember a motherboard I had, that with the bios setting to
turn on virus checking, a message appeared at bootup regarding the
message you may be recieving.

I searched this & discovered the wording of the message was missleading.
It didn't really discover a virus.  Just that the virus checking option
was active.  Harmless.

But then, I'm no guruu either (can't even spell it)

John
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