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| DATE | 2004-08-02 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] BIOS Virus?
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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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