On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> The longer term risk is more likely to be network based. Imagine if the slammer
> worm also did chernobyl style bios erasure... That kind of attack is a when not
> an if.
>

I've seen the occasional report of a virus that would do that, or rub
out the disk drive on dd/mm/yyyy, but so far no reports of it actually
happening.


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Cheers
John.

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