klez virus

[Gary Sublett]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:23:53 +1000
Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 June 2002 07:20 am, Net Llama! enshrined in prose:
> > 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.
> 
> Sorry I have replaced the BIOS, I was asked "how can it damage a HD".

Keith,

There have been reports of a CIH type virus, such as Chernobyl,
piggybacked on Klez and could account for the damage you have
encountered.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-900050.html
http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-99-03.html
http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/viruses/cih.xml

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Gary

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