On Oct 23, 9:13*pm, "FromTheRafters" <erratic.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Emmett BADASS Gulley" <emmettgulle...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:d0766b94-4cda-4206-a611-5c54f143f2f0@v15g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
> On Sep 15, 6:14 pm, "FromTheRafters" <erratic.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nosp...@Verizon.Net> wrote in
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> > > Symantec's writeup...
> > >http://www.symantec.com/connect/blog...-showing-again
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> > Ugh!
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> > CIH didn't *infect* the BIOS, it corrupted it.
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> > Anyway, it is one more step now that mobile code has *infected* the BIOS.
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> > Not a BIOS virus either, as the BIOS code is a guardian program rather
> > than a copy of the infecting program. Still, expect some misinformation
> > to spread faster than the malware itself.
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> WRONG!!!!!! any virus that changes anything is considered to have
> INFECTED the system. Damn your a ****nut.
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> Within the context of my previous statement, "infection" referred to "viral
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> Viral infection is the attaching to code of 'a possibly mutated copy of the
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> Since the new BIOS code Mebromi's installer drops does not contain a "virus",
> it can't be considered to have been infected by a virus even if Mebromi were a
> true virus in other aspects - which it isn't.

On the contrary. Evidently you don't know that there are several BIOS
type viruses out there. I got the CMOS years ago when it was unheard
of for CMOS to even get virus'

You act like this is just isolated but it's not. This is just like
rootkits that nobody ever knew existed until sony got busted.
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