[plug] Windows Briefing

Mike Holland myk at golden.wattle.id.au
Fri Jun 11 15:03:33 WST 1999


On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Shackleton, Kevin wrote:

> A couple of viruses floating around at the moment do just that - basically
> trashing the motherboard unless you happen to know a way to make new
> EEPROMs.  Maybe these virus writers were using MS' technology.

How is this possible without shorting the jumpers on the motherboard?
Be very skeptical about virus warnings, as somebody on this list
explained a while back.


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
                          --==--
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
                -- Rich Kulawiec



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