Totovich Posted March 4, 2005 Report Share Posted March 4, 2005 I was a bit stupid. I allways tought I didn't needed a virusscan on my xp, because I was only using internet on mandrake. Now my pc started crashing whole the time. Iin Mandrake and in winxp. I installed norton 2005 now, and it detected 25 virusses What can I do about this? Not using XP is not an option. I only use the internet on the linuxboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Well, neither 'side' of your computer is immune from problems of this type. Mind you, I've yet to hear of a virus that killed two OSes at the same time! If you NEVER connect to the internet with XP, (and Norton isn't just lying), perhaps malware got into your system by another medium? If you installed any software from a CD, floppy or pen-drive, try scanning that and see if anything pops up. you might want to try out a Linux antivirus, too. I have no links to share, but F-Prot and Panda are two you could search for. Can you tell us what files Norton is flagging, and what virii are identified? Also, how do you connect to the internet? Directly through a modem, or via a local network connection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Currently virus scanning is kinda pointless in Linux, its more usefull for email servers and to scan for windows firuses. If you think its possible for viruses to get into linux and get themselves onto windows - thats impossible. The viruses have come from CDs or floppys or flash drives or other external sources. Or windows is connecting to the internet without your knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Iphitus, you surprise me. Are you saying there is NO threat of virii for a desktop Linux distro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 not enough to be concerned about...yet You shouldn't have your win partitions mounted while on linux either. Need something, edit fstab>mount>do>umount>edit fstab. A good virus on a eth/network configured box can configure/find its way to the internet and have a hay_day ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Iphitus, you surprise me. Are you saying there is NO threat of virii for a desktop Linux distro? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Like bvc says, not ebnough to worry about but I don't know of any that infect the windows filesystem from linux! This really makes iphitus's explanations most likely.... also surfing the internet vs being connected are two different things. if you have a router and dhcp then you are probably connected, just not surfing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totovich Posted March 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Well, my documents part is mounted in Linux. For the rest, I only installed by urpmi. On winxp, there are no progs installed yet. (now norton is...) I shall do a scan within the hour again, and give you the log. My computer keeps crashing in windows as well in linux. I gonna try a full disk format if it isin't fixed in the next two days. But no Mandrake. Gonna try Fedora Core 3. They say it's more stable? Well, I gonna check it out. Maybe it is important to say that I didn't used a firewall in linux. But I did in windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 My computer keeps crashing in windows as well in linux. Sounds like the problem is hardware and when you suspected a virus you found them. Maybe it is important to say that I didn't used a firewall in linux. But I did in windows. or llways tought I didn't needed a virusscan on my xp, because I was only using internet on mandrake. Which one is it? I think you have a HW prob and this is crashing linux.... I have been connected now for 6 months without rebooting and no firewall.... I have never had a linux virus and there are only about 3 anyway... You might try the linux virus scanners but on the XP disks... this prevents the viri hiding... or substituting for XP processes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totovich Posted March 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Sounds like the problem is hardware and when you suspected a virus you found them. Imagine the problem is HW, imagine I have some damaged bootsectors on my hard disk, do you think it can be solved by formatting my whole hard disk (windows AND linux)? update: btw, I had this error a couple days ago: Error in: partition_table::dos=HASH(0x8f808a8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totovich Posted March 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 I did a chkdsk in dos: C:\Documents and Settings\Kristof Jacobs>chkdsk.exeHet type bestandssysteem is FAT32. Volume ACER gemaakt op 5-6-2003 16:44 Het volumenummer is 2629-16F0 Controleren van bestanden en mappen... Windows heeft fouten op de schijf gevonden, maar zal de fouten niet herstellen omdat de schijfcontrole werd uitgevoerd zonder de parameter /F (fix). \Documents and Settings\Kristof Jacobs\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles \1mv8hwtl.default\localstore.rdf. Het eerste cluster is ongeldig. De vermelding wordt afgebroken. De bestanden en mappen zijn gecontroleerd. Verloren ketens omzetten in bestanden (J/N)? j 16 kB in 1 herstelbare bestanden. Er zijn problemen met het bestandssysteem vastgesteld. Voer CHKDSK uit met de optie /F (fix) om deze problemen te herstellen. 28.710.128 kB totale schijfruimte. 1.348.256 kB in 693 verborgen bestanden. 40.752 kB in 2.496 mappen. 18.365.808 kB in 39.365 bestanden. 8.955.264 kB beschikbaar. 16.384 bytes per cluster 1.794.383 clusters in totaal op schijf 559.704 clusters beschikbaar op schijf C:\Documents and Settings\Kristof Jacobs> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 If you go to the manufacturers website for your harddisk you may find they have various checking/repairing utilities. This may give you some idea of what state the disk is in and whether it needs to be replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 If you only connected to the internet in Linux then why didn't you run a firewall? And why bother running one if you're not conencted in windows? (Although that may not be completely ridiculous because, as iphitus said, windows may well have been connecting without your knowledge...) You may be relatively safe from viruses on Linux, but not quite so safe from crackers - you need a firewall... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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