Virus that never was

[JK949]

I copied an fdisk boot floopy to a cd and norton 2005 said I had a virus on my computer.
When I looked at the details it said it was in my floopy drive. The virus name is Rul.336
I went to nortons web site and looked it up and it didn't list it as a virus just a definition.
I scoured the web looking for Rul.336 and found nothing virus related. It didn't fix, repair or
quarentine anything and there was no backup created. Is it possible that Norton saw what
it considers suspect activity and gave me the warning. Also it shows up everytime I do a scan.
It won't go away. Any info or ideas as to what it saw and how I can get it out of Norton.
I have done 3 online virus scans from places like F-SECURE and they all found nothing.

 

[mechBgon]

Does Norton point to a specific file as the problem?

 

[montag451]

http://www.google.com/search?q...;ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

[mechBgon]

Looks like it might be good to put that drive into a different computer as a secondary drive and scan it "captive," judging from what McAfee's saying there. Good find montag451 😀

 

[montag451]

google rox

 

[JK949]

Yes. My floppy drive A is the original location. There are 2 files: IO.SYS AND MSCDEX.EXE
I just ran Norton again and the " virus " didn't show up.
These are files that are part of the fdisk boot floppy I copied to the cd by coincidence.
The floppy is mine and nobody else has used it.

 

[JK949]

Well I just did a new scan on the floppy and it came out clean on my computer and
my roomates with up to date McAfee. Looks like the 2 files I mentioned where seen
by Norton as malicous activity. Well I learned what not to ever do again.

Thanks for all your responses.

 

[mechBgon]

If you read McAfee's description of what the virus is designed to do, you'll notice it's designed to hide viruses from virus scanners. If practical, I would put your hard drive in a different computer, and run a scan on it there.