klez virus

[Net Llama!]

I'm by no means an expert on this, but i find it incredibly hard to
believe that the klez virus damaged a BIOS.  Since BIOS's are all unique,
it would require a tremendous amount of programming prowess to be able to
have such an effect.  This isn't like frying a hardrive where its a common
hardware spec.  At the very least you should be able to re-apply the BIOS
firmware.

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Keith Antoine wrote:

> I need a bit of help here as a customer of mine got this virus and it has
> damaged the bios and killed his Harddrive. The death of the hd was
> progressive in that first it would not boot and now the bios on another
> machine will not see it.
>
> I know from my electronics background and experience over the years that
> malicious virii can/do kill hardware. However I was asked HOW, and I find
> myself knowing the tchnicalities but expressing that in understandable
> english, errrrmmmm ??
>
> Specifically the virus has commands that attack and generate undue emf's at
> particular points causing either shorts or sharp temp rises.
>
> Can anyone make this more erudite and understandable to the unititiated,
> please.
>
> Why I need this is that I took a scsi card out two days before and it would
> not reboot, so I went to bios and resaved it, all was fine, rebooted and I
> left. Now there is the suspicion that what I did caused the problem.
> However as admitted two sone were online that night. In the morning
> when the owner woke the computer up it came up with the virus protector
> saying that 10 files were infected with KLEZ, he went to clean them up and
> the machine stopped dead half way through a write. It refused to reboot and
> that were I came in. The owner is a pro photographer with weddings on the hd
> but it now seesm to be electrically dead, when put in my machine it  will not
> even see the drive, it is blank not eve a 'none' nothing appears.
>
>

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