Aardvark wrote:
> 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 not, I'm a ****.

Adjusted to show the truth.

>> 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$, ****?

Folk might be unaware that they were *not* buying from Microsoft due to
the use of redirectors.

>> 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!

>> Maybe Dustin will explain why such a scenario is impossible! ;-)
>
> It's probably some kind of magic - just like everything about
> computers.

You surely know there's nothing magic about computers?

It's Jim Eshelman who is into magic, not me!

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--
Dave - suffering from wind today! :-) (moored-up!)