"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in
news:hrfemu0i3o@news2.newsguy.com:

> From: "~BD~" <BoaterDave@hot.mail.co.uk>
>
>
>| So now we are in a situation where someone (drdos) has posted
>| information on a well known technical forum saying one thing .......
>| and Mr David H Lipman (whoever he may *really* be!) making a post on
>| Usenet groups claiming that the original poster is wrong.
>
>| Take a step outside the box, David.
>
>| How could anyone simply 'visiting' these groups have any notion of
>| who is actually telling the truth?
>
>| I am /inclined/ to believe what *you* say - but there is no
>| supporting evidence to that effect - is there?
>
>| Is it reasonable for readers to accept that, as you have made no
>| disparaging comment to the contrary, that "Most wiping, erasing,
>| formatting, and partitioning tools will not overwrite logical bad
>| sectors on the Disk, leaving the Rootkits and their accompanying
>| payload of malware behind and still active."?
>
>| If so, what action would one recommend one takes before reinstalling
>| an operating system on a previously used disk - Darik's Boot and
>| Nuke?
>| http://download.cnet.com/Darik-s-Boo...d-DVD/3000-209
>| 4_4-10151762.html
>
>| Or, maybe FDISK will do? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867
>
>| Or does one simply assume that one's disk is Rootkit free and simply
>| use a Windows set-up disk and the in-built formatting facility?
>
>| --
>| Dave
>
> Show us *any* malware in the wild that; infects or resides within
> the; BIOS, Motherboard or Video-card.

And evidently, has some sort of universal translator for the code
differences found between them all.

> **And I do not mean some engineer in lab environment who found he
> could introduce malware into the BIOS, Motherboard or Video-card.

I would prefer it further if said engineer was able to demostrate
operational code instead of a storage site for potentially malicious code
which will never get run control; and thus, remain quite... harmless.

> There is not taking a step outside the box. This is the reality.
> There is NO malware that infects or resides within the; BIOS,
> Motherboard or Video-card.

Only few malware samples which would make an effort to corrupt the BIOS;
and it required very specific hardware in order to do it's deed. One size
doesn't fit all.




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