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Norton AV 2002 says boot record changed
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Norton AV 2002 says boot record changed
Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 8:42 pm
Posted by jr
(7 messages posted)
I ran liveupdate today and got today's virus definitions, scanned my system, no viruses,
and no problems booting and using the computer. I did change the AGP Apeture Size
in my CMOS settings for the BIOS before it told me about my boot record. Does this
have an effect on my boot record in any way? Thanks.
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re: Norton AV 2002 says boot record changed
Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 9:41 pm
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
NO. The only thing that should ever have an effect on the actual boot record is
if you ran something like Partition Magic to chanage disk partition sizes. Now it
they are including the partition boot information, then changing the Volume Label
could have such an effect. I have read of a number of people recently reporting
this problem with NAV so I suspect its due to some change in their program. Not a
problem with your system or any virus.
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re: Norton AV 2002 says boot record changed
Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 9:54 pm
Posted by jr
(7 messages posted)
So should I tell NAV 2002 to go ahead and update the saved copy of the boot record
or restore it back to the old one? Thanks again.
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forgot to mention...
Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 9:59 pm
Posted by jr
(7 messages posted)
...that I ran my Basic Rescue Boot disk which I created after installing NAV 2002,
and it did not see any problems with the boot record or partition tables (nothing
was checked off to repair.)
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 9:54 pm, wrote:
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>So should I tell NAV 2002 to go ahead and update the saved copy of the boot record
>or restore it back to the old one? Thanks again.
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re: forgot to mention...
Thursday, June 13, 2002 at 9:07 am
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Go ahead and do it. Sounds like the problem is that NAV's referance of what your
boot sector should look like is not valid and saving the current one will solve that.
This can occur as a result of downloading changes to NAV. If a full virus
scan finds no virus, then there is none and the boot sector is not infected. It is
then safe to use what you have as the new referance for the boot sector.
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