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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Boot Sector/Partition Table Protection (PC)
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Date: 12 Feb 91 12:01:30 GMT
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Regarding the subject of automatically detecting infections by boot
sector viruses, I just wanted to point out that F-DRIVER.SYS (a part
of my F-PROT package) will detect all known boot sector viruses, and
is also designed to detect new/unknown boot sector and partition table
viruses.  I will, however include an option in version 1.15 to disable
this check, as it may cause problems on machines with network boot
ROMs.

- -frisk