[PLUG] Boot Sector Virii and Linux

[Richard Seymour]

Mark Morgan wrote:

> Well, if you had an infected floppy, booted from it, you could infect 
> your bootsector.  I'm not sure if this would screw LILO or Grub since 
> most viruses would assume DOS.  The safest way to deaL with unknown 
> equipment is to just low level format it.

I'm looking to develop a procedure to determine IF a boot sector virus 
has infected a box. It's not practical to low level format all the 
drives every time we think any computer might have a boot sector virus.

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