PERRY@northeastern.edu (10/29/89)
HI!
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computer users! Congratulations.
I recently downloaded BootChek 1.0 from Simtel20. With increasing
frequency it has been saying my boot sector has been modified. I have
allowed it to replace the "corrupt" boot sector on each of these occaisions.
The complaint only happens on cold boots and not everytime the machine is
cold booted. BootCHek lists the offset at which the sector starts to be
different as 11 (on other occaisions 17, and most recently as 6.) The
most recent time this symptom occured was after three reboots (each of
which set off bootchek)
Viruscanv42 shows no viruses on my 10 meg hard disk. I also run
flushot plus ver 1.5 and UNVIRUS6 from Simtel20. These are running on
my 4.77mhz IBM PC Clone with a DTK BIOS.
I am concerned that BootChek has a bug, a virus, or both.
Would someone please respond ASAP with any thoughts or info on
my concerns!
Jeffrey Perry
Northeastern University PC Users Group
PS. I have the corrupt.hex file produced by each of the five times bootchek
claimed my boot sector had been changed. If anyone wants to analyze them
I would be glad to send them along.
PSS. I have backed up my Hard Disk so I am ready for just about anything
BUT I hope it is merely a bug in bootchek!!!