[plug] Windows Briefing

[Shackleton, Kevin]

Right in one corner of the Intel BX boards there's a 3-pin header that
enables/disables EEPROM updates.  Whether it really protects all the EEPROM
I couldn't say.

K

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> From: 	Garth Atkinson[SMTP:garth at cclinic.com.au]
> 
> 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
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