On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:34:30 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:

> Aardvark wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:52:06 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:
>>
>>> Now, if LoJack can do this, as I've intimated in the past, why cannot
>>> a specifically crafted *malware* do exactly the same thing if it was
>>> planted on a CD/DVD which a user deliberately 'loaded' for a specific
>>> purpose? For example, a CD used to install drivers for a printer or,
>>> perhaps, a CD ordered by post to install Windows XP SP2?
>>>
>>> Serious question.
>>
>> No, it's a sto0pid question. Why would M$ wish to do anything like that
>> and expect to get away with it for any length of time?
>
> Sometimes you are _really_ dopey, Aardvark!
>

No, I'm ****ing not, ****. That's your job.

> I was giving you an example only. If one's computer had *already* been
> compromised, a *fake* CD could have been supplied by a 'rogue' outfit
> pretending that it was supplying a M$ product (in the case of an SP2
> disk)
>

Why buy it from anyone other than M$, ****?

> Once then loaded into one's PC, the malware embedded thereupon could
> then contaminate the BIOS chip for posterity! One's computer would be
> owned forever!
>

Sto0pid ****.

> Maybe Dustin will explain why such a scenario is impossible! ;-)

It's probably some kind of magic, ****- just like everything about
computers.



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