full-disclosure - FW: DOS all platforms

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From: jluehr at gmx.net (Jan Lühr)
Subject: FW: DOS all platforms

Greetings,

Am Dienstag, 27. Januar 2004 13:35 schrieb Jos Osborne:
> Back just before the millenium my local college lost about 30 or so brand
> new computers cos' of a virus that overwrote their flash Bios'es with
> random gibberish. Said Bios chips were soldered directly to the motherboard
> so they couldn't even be easily replaced. 

It was called CIH. Here in germany a local computer maginze offered to retoast 
to chips.

> I heard about the HD destroyer
> too - it was supposed to be something to do with setting up a vibration in
> the drive heads that destroyed the slipstream layer the head rides on.
> Nobody I know has ever _actually_ seen it happen tho.

May be an urban myth. I also onced heard about a monitor destroyer. It ought 
to overclocke the monitor. But in fact, all my monitors (purchesed since 
1995) switch off, if the frequence jump out of range...

Keep smiling
yanosz