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Joined: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:48 am Posts: 178 Location: Ashtabula, Ohio 
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 bios malwareI donno... all I can say about this is... ummmm... BAD!!! REALLY BAD!!!
http://threatpost.com/blogs/researchers-unveil-persistent-bios-attack-methods Im never signing in as root or using sudo/su again... _________________ In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. -John C. Dvorak DiggThis-09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 |
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Re: bios malware This virus keeps me awake at night.
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Re: bios malware Adding a hardware write protect to the bios is not that difficult. In fact, some motherboards come with a bios write-protect jumper.
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