Re: [Hampshire] remove viruses on external HDD from Linux bo…

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Author: Lisi
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] remove viruses on external HDD from Linux box
On Friday 10 October 2008 15:03:03 Steve Kemp wrote:
> A pagefile isn't an executable program. So there's no need to
> try to "clean" it.
>
> Just ignore it as a false positive. If you're not 100% sure what
> you're doing when you mess around with writing to an NTFS volume
> corruption is the most likely result.
>
> Steve
> --

Thanks, Steve.

There are also two other files identified as suspect. One as a named Trojan
and the other being the Linux.Lion.

So I'll have to do something about at least the Trojan, will I not?

But I welcome the advice to leave the .sys file alone!!

Lisi