----- Original Message -----
From: David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] CIH virus


 On 27 Apr 99, at 17:10, Sherif Safwat wrote:

   Can any one say how to make MoBo which hit by CIH life agian , are
 there any wqy to get it bach its BIOS agian  ?
   [] Note that this virus *also* overwrites about the first 2000 blocks of
 hard disk, including the partition table, FAT and root directory;
recovering
 from this could be somewhat harder.


> David G
David,
   Do you know of any way to PREVENT the BIOS from being "Flashed" in the
first place?

John

BTW this thing is generating all kinds of new thoughts on MOBO/BIOS/HARD
DRIVE technology.  Sure glad we have PCBUILD!!!!!

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