I haven't done a BIOS flash update in a long time, but it used to be that one booted to a boot floppy (some version of DOS or similar OS), and executed a utility on the floppy that wrote the revised code to the BIOS. Presumably today, one downloads a Windows Program that creates/makes a CD disc, instead of a floppy disk, that does the same thing??? The belt and suspenders folks should download this BIOS flash program and data for their current BIOS version, and have it at the ready, if one is afraid of BIOS corruption by a virus.
Fred Holmes At 10:39 PM 12/25/2009, katan wrote: >Except in the BIOS. WHat I'm wondering is, if a BIOS virus can >intercept a BIOS update and re-infect the BIOS being updated. I don't >know, it seems like maybe it would require more code than would fit in >the BIOS (then again, I'm not a programmer, so I don't know). >-- > R:\katan ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
