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remove Pc-cillian from boot

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by jackreed2k

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I run Windows 2000 Professional and tried to load SuSE Linux 7.2. I came to find out that my video card does not support linux. So I reformatted the hard drive partition with Partition Magic 6.0 and reformatted it to NTFS.
Now everytime I reboot the computer I get a virus alert from PC-cillin 98 (It came with motherboard and I did not load it.) that I have a virus alert and I have to instruct it to go ahead and boot anyway.
My question is how do I get rid of PC-cillin?

R,

Jack Reed

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by thechas

Since you formated the HDD, there are 2 posabilities;

1. The MB mfg is using PC-cillin as a BIOS virus checker. Disable virus check in BIOS settings.

2. PC-cillin was isntalled like a bios overlay program. Try fdisk/mbr to get rid of it.
As I think about this, it is also possabile that the software installed in a "hidden" partition.

by dcosgrove

It may also be as simple as disabling virus protection in the bios. It could be seeing the way partition magic redirects the bios to boot of a different partition contained in the primary partition. I know that doesn't make much sense, but it doessound like virus like activity.

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