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| DATE | 2004-08-02 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] BIOS Virus?
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Did anyone bother to look at which HP PCS SuSE has actually certified. The
Brio is only certified with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop which I believe
uses the 8.2 build. The only HP/Compaq's certified for Suse 9.x series are
the EVO and Professional Workstation line. HP has stated that the Brio only
is certified for Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, Suse Enterprise Linux Desktop, and RH
Enterprise Linux 2.1.
Regards,
Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
-----Original Message-----
From: Inker, Evan
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:40 AM
To: 'Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS'; Inker, Evan
Cc: 'Paul Robert Marino'; Steve Milo; hangout-at-nylxs.com
Subject: RE: [hangout] BIOS Virus?
Yes but the chips needed to be infected to start with. If this was the case,
then you have a plethera of machines being recalled or hearing about it.
CMOS can easily be wiped by either removing the Lithium Ion battery....
Regards,
Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
-----Original Message-----
From: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS [mailto:ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:35 AM
To: Inker, Evan
Cc: 'Paul Robert Marino'; Steve Milo; hangout-at-nylxs.com
Subject: Re: [hangout] BIOS Virus?
Yes
But they happen, even in the older machines, the cmos get infected. In
fact, there was one manufacturer a few years ago which shipped a bunch of
infected chips sets out to the public. All bios have some capacity for
memory recall, otherwise they would have no options.
That being said, I doubt that is his problem.
Ruben
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:29:11PM +0100, Inker, Evan wrote:
>
> Sorry not to chime in earlier but I agree with Rob. As most earlier
> BIOS were based on non-writable ROMs chips, finding a BIOS Virus is
> extremely rare. As today, some PC Manufacturers are separating BIOS
> functions onto a ROM Chip and Hard Drive Partition, it becomes more
> possible but still rare. Also Brios are pure crap as our any low end
> Compaq/HP machine generally is (I Know from experience.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Robert Marino [mailto:rob-at-concord.altschools.org]
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 11:39 PM
> To: Steve Milo
> Cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> Subject: Re: [hangout] BIOS Virus?
>
>
>
> Brios are crap that is why youre having problems. a BIOS virus is
> possible but rare and machine specific I doubt it. I have personaly
> only heared stories about bios viruses ive never seen one and even
> then the stories took place in the early 80s, always started with "my
> cousins fathers brothers friend had this happen once", and it was
> deliberatly planted in the computer they effected by a disgrunteled
> programer and even calling them a virus was debatable because they
> didnt replicate. it never made any sence to create such a thing in the
> first place esspecialy now that PC's are so cheep. its much more
> probible the hardware is broken or just bad in the first place. Im
> not saying a BIOS virus is imposible because it is, but its also the
> most improbible cause of the problem. it is soo improbible I would
> never consider it as a posible cause of any problem. "Steve Milo"
> wrote ..
> >
> > Is it possible to get a virus on a BIOS through W2K that affects
> > everthing you do on the system?
> >
> > I tried installing Suse 9.1, I removed all the hard drives installed
> > one seperate hd. Wiped it clean, and when I tried to install 9.1 it
> > hung, numerous times. I checked the log screen and there was either
> > an error decompressing or an inode was locked and couldnt be written
> > to or read from.
> >
> > This machine is a Celeron with 256m of memory, hd is 6gb, it is an
> > HP
> > Brio with Pheonix BIOS. I have tried a basic install and a minimal
> > install. I tried installing with safe mode (nodma, acpi-off, apm-off
> > then with dma,
> > acpi-
> > off, apm on).
> > I also reset the BIOS a few times.
> >
> > The manual says I should set system BIOS shadowing to off. There is
> > no setting for that in this thing.
> >
> > Steve M
> >
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