FromTheRafters wrote:

>
>"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
>newsp.v03yddzwa3w0dxdave@hodgins.homeip.net...
>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:11:30 -0400, FromTheRafters <erratic.howard@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Would it only persist if it was reloaded with the same OS
>>
>> It's a rootkit in bios that will reinstall itself in any windows system.
>>
>> I don't know if it would damage a linux installation, or not. It
>> definitely wouldn't work though.
>
>That's one of the good things about Linux. When a Windows
>system OS is identified you be be very sure that certain
>programs are there. You can know what editors are being
>used, what browser in most cases, even what library files
>are there. With Linux, all you can be sure of is that there is
>a penguin graphic somewhere. )


Doesn't matter what O/S, they can halt the boot process before it even
gets to the OS loader.