Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please..
>On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:08:44PM -0400, Jan >Muszynski wrote:
>> So even if you do have a data backup your BIOS is >probably fried.
>>
>> For more information see:
>> http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/cih.htm
>
>It was only a matter of time before a virus came along >which could
>flash
>your BIOS. I'll tell you what scares me even more >though -- Western
>Digital
>have published firmware updates for IDE drives on >occasion, which
leads
>me to assume they have flash BIOS in there too. My >video card
>(Diamond Viper V330+) is software upgradable too. Most >Rockwell
modems
>are software upgradable too. (AT** then Xmodem >upload.)
>Lots of motherboards have socketed ROM chips, so you >can fix them
with
>a ROM programmer. Not so on video cards and hard >disks.
Most motherboards (at least the ones I have seen) won't let you run the
software to re-program the flash unless you first throw a hardware
switch, or move a jumper block to enable the HW write on the bios chip.
Compaq uses a password protection scheme. I would hope that both
methods are enough to keep a virus from frying anything. I have a
serial modem that can be upgraded. I think that the protocol it uses
for that is propriety to the maker so a virus couldn't get in (unless
someone who worked for them wrote the virus).
===
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