But , for at least 2 months after the dual-boot installation .. the E: and F: did show up.They did the vanishing act only after my friend (who I said can be trusted) did his.
Thanks and Regards, Shyam Stan & Julie Rock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Personally I think its something else. Its seems appropriate to read that > /dev/hda9 is drive D: and overlaps assuming drive E and F hence is why they > don't show up. > > Any virus checker can miss viruses. There is no "sure" cure except toasting > Windows. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "shyamk @ eth . net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 8:48 AM > Subject: Virus ? > > > > I use a dual-boot Win98 - RH Linux machine , on a LAN > > of Windoze machines. > > When my machine was booted to Win98 , my friend , whom > > I can trust , copied a folder into my machine (his machine > > runs the latest version of Norton Anti-Virus 2000 .. I mean > > that he downloads the latest updates). > > We subsequently shutdown our machines , and packed off for the day. > > The next morning when we switched on my box , only the Win drives > > C: and D: can be seen. E: and F: are missing ! > > I boot to Linux and cfdisk-ed and got the following error > > message from cfdisk : > > > > FATAL ERROR : Bad Logical partition 9 : Partition ends before sector 0. > > Press any key to exit cfdisk .... > > > > And cfdisk showed no output ... I mean they did not show me anything ... > > just the above error message. > > > > hda9 was D: , mount commands for hda9 work well. Same under Windoze. > > > > But as I said the problem is with the E: and F: > > > > Am I right in suspecting a Boot-sector Virus ? > > Can Windoze have a Boot-sector Virus that Norton Anti-Virus > > does not detect ? > > > > > > Please guide me on this. > > > > Warm Regards, > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Shyam > > -- > > ------------([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(=)--(Shyam)--------------- > > "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder." > > If you believe me then Debian is what you are looking at. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- ------------([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(=)--(Shyam)--------------- "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder." "The truth is stranger than fiction." ---------------------------------------------------------
