Hi Gordon,
 > 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.
On my mother board you need to change a jumper to update the BIOS this should 
make it virus proof but if the new BIOS code comes from a bad source then it 
could be infected.
As the computer would probably be killed by the crook code in the BIOS it not 
a virus as it can't spead.
Regards, Malcolm.
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