Suspected virus in DT

Subject: Suspected (ex-)virus in the DT
From: AKS
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 07:14 AM

I've just installed the new virus "detector" (since the Univ. chose to use F-Secure instead of McAfee for some years to come) and scanned my drives. This came up: "... files infected: \digitrad\tunes\cariboo ... could be an image file of a boot sector virus". Hopefully nothing very serious??

AKS

Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 07:16 AM

probably coincidence/false error or local to your machine. I've never had any virus problem with any version of the DT I've downloaded

Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT
From: artbrooks
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 07:27 AM

I run Norton weekly (more or less), and its never picked up anything in the DT.

Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT
From: KJ
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 07:32 AM

I update & run Norton every other day & have never had a problems with any DT files

Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 10:46 AM

Generally speaking, a "boot sector virus" is a virus that inhabits the boot sector of a floppy disk or a hard drive. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the data files on that disk. (Although it could be conceivably copied to any location on the disk, it isn't likely to copy itself from there.)

The boot sector is the part of the disk that gets loaded automatically into memory when you boot your computer. If you have an infected disk in your floppy drive when you boot, the virus propagates itself to any disk you format from that point on, until you disinfect your system. At least, that's the essence of how boot sector viruses work; they could be programmed to do any number of other nasty things as well.

Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 10:53 AM

The file in question (on the CD version, anyway) contains only ascii notation for the tune and first verse.

Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT
From: mooman
Date: 27 Jan 03 - 10:54 AM

Checked DT with InoculateIT (updated almost daily) and no problems found.

moo