> Doesn't everyone format new hard drives? Well, I certainly don't; indeed, most of the new disks I get are IDE, and I don't know of any way to reformat those at all.
I do, however, ignore the data on them, which, from the sound of this, would be enough to defend against this threat. (Based on the names, the malware in question probably wouldn't run on my systems anyway, but that's a separate line of defense.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
