Virus 'protection' departitionment

Thorin Kend Linderholm (tlinderh@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu)
Tue, 6 Aug 1996 17:15:39 -0700 (PDT)


I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, if you have a better I'd
love to know...

I have an intel PC, IDE, 2 drives, linux is on the second, LIlo is
on the first on MBR.

I just ran f-prot virus protection(in dos) and it said it found and
cleaned the ripper virus on my second drive, the one with a dos, linux swap,
and ext-2 partition. It decided I really had one huge dos partition and
wrote that on my MBR. Does anyone know any way to rewrite the MBR with the
correct information witout losing all the data on my drive?

BTW, I know the data is still there because my kernel is on that
drive and lilo can still run it, but of course it can't mount root, cause
the file system info is wrong in the MBR.

Any help, even just a better place to ask, would be apreciatd. Oh,
f-prot will not return my MBR to its pre-'cleaned' status itself, I checked
that already.

Thorin Linderholm