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This article is from the Computer viruses FAQ, by David Harley D.Harley@icrf.icnet.uk, George Wenzel gwenzel@telusplanet.net and Bruce Burrell bpb@umich.edu with numerous contributions by others.

14) What's the genb/genp virus?

This is McAfee-ese for "You may have an unrecognised ('generic')
boot-sector (genb) or partition-sector (genp) virus". Re-check
with a more recent version or the latest version of another
reputable package.

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