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27 Jan 03 - 07:14 AM (#875666) Subject: Suspected (ex-)virus in the DT From: AKS 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 |
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27 Jan 03 - 07:16 AM (#875669) Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT From: MMario 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 |
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27 Jan 03 - 07:27 AM (#875674) Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT From: artbrooks I run Norton weekly (more or less), and its never picked up anything in the DT. |
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27 Jan 03 - 07:32 AM (#875675) Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT From: KJ I update & run Norton every other day & have never had a problems with any DT files |
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27 Jan 03 - 10:46 AM (#875766) Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT From: Jim Dixon 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. |
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27 Jan 03 - 10:53 AM (#875771) Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT From: Malcolm Douglas The file in question (on the CD version, anyway) contains only ascii notation for the tune and first verse. |
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27 Jan 03 - 10:54 AM (#875773) Subject: RE: Suspected virus in DT From: mooman Checked DT with InoculateIT (updated almost daily) and no problems found. moo |