[vox-tech] New Distrobutions Virus Alert

[Peter Jay Salzman]

if you're putting linux on your system, why do you care whether you have
virus protection turned on in bios or not?

and frankly, i wouldn't use bios virus protection myself without knowing
more about how it works.

did you look at google groups yet?

pete


begin Rusty Minden <clownsinc@attbi.com> 
> I have tested the new 
> Mandrake 8.2 (Download Version)
> SuSE 8.0 Professional
> Debian SID (ftp download from ftp.Debian.org)
> They all have a problem with my Mother board. I get a virus detected alert and 
> have to bypass it (if I dare) to get it to load. I first saw it with Sid and 
> figured it was a bad download. Then with Mandrake I started to wonder, but 
> with SuSE 8.0 I have to ask what are they doing different. I will have too 
> disable the virus detection on the bios I suppose, but do I really want to do 
> this? I have a FIC 1st Mainboard AZ11E with an Athlon 900 chip and 1 GB of 
> SDRAM. Any suggestions?
> 
> Rusty Minden CCNA :-)
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