[Gllug] Bios Issue

[Christopher Hunter]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 00:13 +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
        > On 13/07/2009 00:07, Christopher Hunter wrote:
        > > The other possibility is a virus - there are two or three
        about > > (CIH is one) that screw about with the BIOS of a
        Windows machine > > after a number of reboots.
        > >    
        > 
        > I think the last version of Windows that was vulnerable to
        this 
        > was ME, anything NTish (so, XP, 2k, 2k3, Vista etc etc etc)
        is 
        > immune.  Seems unlikely he'd be running such an old Windows.

At work we had a warning that there was an email attachment about that
included an updated version of CIH.  McAfee (for what they're worth)
describe this as a current threat for every version from 2000 onwards.
My office had several machines with trashed BIOSes over the last few
weeks (I work in a "government" department, and Windoze is almost
unavoidable!).
        
C.

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