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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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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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