BIOS infection - an item for discussion
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From: ~BD~ on 17 Jun 2010 12:50 "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:hvdd7h$k6n$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... > Hey Dave > > Someone told me that you use a Cray X6 on your boat to navigate the > waters > > -- > Peter Do you believe *everything* you are told, Peter? I actually use the Nicholson's Guides, details here :- http://www.meridianmapsonline.co.uk/category_nicholsons_waterways_guides_899.aspx Perhaps you had something else in mind. Did you? -- Dave
From: David H. Lipman on 17 Jun 2010 16:49 From: "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> | Hey Dave | Someone told me that you use a Cray X6 on your boat to navigate the waters My brother used a Cray supercomputer when he worked for NASA and was in the project for creating the space station that is now in orbit. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: FromTheRafters on 17 Jun 2010 20:14 "~BD~" <BoaterDave.(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:hvdjo2$pio$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:hvdd7h$k6n$1(a)speranza.aioe.org... >> Hey Dave >> >> Someone told me that you use a Cray X6 on your boat to navigate the >> waters >> >> -- >> Peter > > > Do you believe *everything* you are told, Peter? > > I actually use the Nicholson's Guides, details here :- > > http://www.meridianmapsonline.co.uk/category_nicholsons_waterways_guides_899.aspx > > Perhaps you had something else in mind. Did you? Maybe he's thinking of the Cray XE6 that's running the state-of-the-art fishfinding software for your souped-up Garmin sonar transducer? ....only detecting crayfish is a known problem with this model. :o)
From: ~BD~ on 18 Jun 2010 04:11 "Dustin Cook" <bughunter.dustin(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9D98C33F8C509HHI2948AJD832(a)69.16.185.247... > "~BD~" <.BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in news:hv89gk$9mf$1 > @news.eternal-september.org: > >> "FromTheRafters" <erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message >> news:hv7olu$5lh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> %20and%20Alfredo.txt >>> >>> Is there a question? >> >> I've recently attended a boating rally. One of my fellow boaters is a >> 'guru' who works for IBM here in the UK. I asked him a simple > question:- >> >> Can viruses/malware reside inside a computer somewhere other than on > the >> hard disk? >> >> His immediate answer was ......... "Yes. In the BIOS". > > You should have asked him to provide even one actual virus name of one > that actually does that, then. You are correct. Timing was wrong though. It's also possibe that he would not have provided information thought to best kept under wraps. >> My question to you, FTR, is why do folk not discuss this in the >> relevant Usenet groups? > > For the most part, it's not much for discussion. Really? It seems to have produced a reasonable length thread! ;-) > BIOS isn't universal, > one size doesn't fit all. In order to craft a virus to infect one, > would > be very specifc to that one particular BIOS firmware. IE: not worth > the > hassle. Worth it? Have you *any* idea how much money is stolen by Cybercrime nowadays?!!! Explore here: http://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreports.aspx -- Dave
From: FromTheRafters on 18 Jun 2010 18:44
"~BD~" <BoaterDave.(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:hvgmvo$uc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... [...] > Once an attacker has admin rights, the rootkit could be flashed onto > the BIOS and would remain effective even if the original virus on the > hard disk were removed. Even a complete format wouldn't rid the system > of the virus. It *would* rid the system of the virus. What it would *not* do is remove all aspects of the so-called rootkit. The firmware can still be considered "infected", but *not* by a virus (unless that code itself is self-replicative). > http://www.tomshardware.com/news/bios-virus-rootkit-security-backdoor,7400.html [...] |