[plug] Windows Briefing

[Garth Atkinson]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> 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

Its possible because all (?) the modern motherboards have bios's
(eeproms) that can be upgraded. Normally these bios are only updated by
a program written and supplied by the manufacturer of the motherboard.
Conceivably any hacker, armed with the information how to do this, could
load corrupt instructions into the bios eeprom.

Garth