I saw this and I think that the Apple MacOS crowd will get hit first with Microsoft Exchange and the rest of the Microsoft crowd, then SDs,SCO,HPUX,Solaris,Linux,AIX,etc....
Remember there are two types of Microsoft Windows systems out there, systems owned by people who care and systems owned by people that don't care. Dig out those Alphas and RS6000 systems now... ;) Andrew "lathama" Latham TuxTone Inc. http://TuxTone.com [email protected] 2009/3/23 zach tilse <[email protected]>: > I figured I'd give everyone a heads up on some virus news that could soon > affect everyone, literally everyone from BIOS level and it's being worked on > as we speak. Some of you may have already read articles about it and it > stems from a weakness dating back to 386's but here's a link to it. It will > affect any OS and reflashing and/or reformatting cannot stop it. The only > good news is the rootkit only works by gaining root to install this snippet > of code. > > http://threatpost.com/blogs/researchers-unveil-persistent-bios-attack-methods > > They showed it at CanSecWest working on a Windows PC, OpenBSD, and a PC > running VMWare player! > > Even though it works cross-platforms, I can see a lot of Windows users > getting hit by this simply because of an insecure system. > > > -Zach Tilse- > > ________________________________ > Internet Explorer 8 – Now Available. Faster, safer, easier. Download FREE > now! > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
