On (23 Jan 97) Jon Phipps wrote to Betty Holder...
 JP> Hello Betty!
 JP> Saturday January 18 1997 11:06, Betty Holder wrote to rod fewster:
 BH> I agree with you.  I don't see how that could technically work.
 BH> Now if a virus (or trojan for that matter) were to jam a printer,
 BH> low-level format a poorly designed IDE drive, or make a motherboard
 BH> or video card unusable by trashing EEPROMs on board that have them,
 JP> To destroy or reprogram the settings in an EEPROM requires that the
 JP> programming voltage(usually 20+ VDC and not available on any motherboard
 JP> that I know of)
 JP> be put to one of the pins, then the data must then be put in in the
 JP> correct order and on the correct pins. There are some other tech
 JP> stipulations to the erasure or reprogramming of e(ee)proms that would 
make
 JP> it extremely difficult for a virus to accomplish any of them. Also 
inorder
 JP> for the new data to function the eeprom must be fully erased in the
 JP> firstplace. I would like someone to tell me how they think that a virus
 JP> could accomplish all of this.
Well there IS one virus that will write its self in the BIOS, only 
on flastbios mother boards.  And I did find it some time ago on 
the internet, but since then the procedure to reprogram the flask 
bios on mother boards has been changed... I hope.  Now some modens 
can have their eeprom also over written, and their has been 
extensive messages on it wither it was hardware damage or not.
Gordon
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