Re: Virus Alert!

[Dale Mentzer]

On 17 Feb 00 at 3:39, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

>>I have heard rumors that there are CMOS viruses that can physically change
>>the firmware, but I don't know if there is any truth in those stories.  Does
>>anyone know anything for certain about this?   Sounds like a hoax to me.

This might be possible if your system has a Flash BIOS. That is after 
all what the BIOS update program does to the flash BIOS.

Regards,
Dale Mentzer

I started out with nothing...I still have most of it.


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