[Gllug] [Off-Topic] BIOS questions

[Andy Smith]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:12:52AM +0000, Emon wrote:
> The AMI BIOS on my Motherboard has the option to enable "Boot
> sector virus checking", & as far as I know you cannot update the
> virus definition file for this virus guard. If so, then is there
> any point in keeping this virus guard enabled?, will it be able
> to detect new viruses?

Don't those things just complain about *any* modification to boot
sectors, as opposed to having any list of virus definitions?

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