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Virus Warning

Common Options : Enabled, Disabled

Quick Review

This BIOS feature provides rudimentary anti-virus protection by monitoring writes to the boot sector and partition table.

If this feature is enabled, the BIOS will halt the system and flash a warning message whenever it detects an attempt to write to the boot sector or the partition table.

If this feature is disabled, the BIOS will not monitor writes to the boot sector and partition table.

This feature can cause problems with software that need to access the boot sector. One good example is the installation routine of all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. When enabled, this feature causes the installation routine to fail. You should disable this feature before running such software.

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