[ale] Virus in Linux

[a.blossom1 at genie.com]

You can protect your master boot record from a dos boot infector in the
diskette boot record by turning off boot from A or A/C to C/A in your
CMOS/BIOS.  Everyone has forgotten to remove a diskette from the A: drive
and this is the most common way a machine gets hosed.  Some of these viruses
like the Monkey will cypher your partition tables.  Others will write on 1
or more sectors besides the boot record.  The popular FORM will write itself
to the System boot record usually assuming that the 1st partition is a DOS
partition.  99.9% of all viruses in the wild are PC DOS programs.

Arthur, IBMAV support and CERT