Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...
In a message dated 4/28/99 10:25:05 AM Central Daylight Time,
genkin@sympatico.ca writes:
> > > It deletes your BIOS after writing over the disk ... not just the
> > > partition table.
>
> Could someone give an opinion on turning on "Antivirus" feature in the
> motherboard BIOS? I recall hearing once that it should be avoided, but
> I can't remember the arguments.
>
>
On my latop, I have the same setting... and it controls whether or not I can
overwrite the MBR on my HD. Assuming I don't plan on partioning my drive, I
can set this switch to prevent anyone else from doing so.
Unfortunately, it doesn't protect the BIOS itself.
-Jay
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