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| DATE | 2004-08-01 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] BIOS Virus?
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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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