I were warned but ... now really need your advice

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:17 -0500, Vu Pham wrote:
> Three days ago I got a virus email and I chuckled 'hmm, let's see what
> you can do with my Suse'. I used OO to open the attached doc and it
> seemed it didn't do anything besides saying the doc is in invalid format
> or somethihg like that.
> 
> But now I recognizethat my Suse will change the system whenever I boot
> to it. Tried bring it to another system and got the same problem.
> 
> I tested as follows :
> - go to BIOS settings and set the time correctly
> - boot to my Suse hard drive and it shows some wrong time
> - reset the system without shut it down and go to BIOS , it has wrong
> time. 
> - each time the time difference is different, from 3 to 12 hours,
> including minutes.
> 
> I am not sure if that virus that I challenged  causes this problem or my
> Suse has some other problem.
> 
> Any advice ?

That problem was noted on the Fedora List for dual boot systems where
Win and Linux contend, in turn, for the system clock. I don't dual boot
so I think I just chucked that one. Ric