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- From: hombas!rudy.hehn@hombas.uucp
- Newsgroups: comp.virus
- Subject: Re: HELP! (RE: IBM password) (PC)
- Message-ID: <0005.9211101922.AA06969@barnabas.cert.org>
- Date: 3 Nov 92 22:33:00 GMT
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- - -> That "I always warn people not to use" covers a lot of territory! In
- - -> the business world, that password feature is very desirable. It keeps
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- I was, perhaps, a little imprecise in my phrasing. I should have said
- 'warn people not to use unless they don't mind the inconvenience of
- losing the password and not having system access until they recover it'.
- In a business setting, that feature is desirable, as you pointed out.
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- - -> circumstances. I suspect that there is a market for this - picure
- - -> walking into a better grade of computer store. A PC in the order area
- - -> presents a menu driven system. You select your present (or just
- - -> ordered) motherboard, then choose from a list of BIOS options like:
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- <Text deleted>
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- - -> Seclect what you need, then the system programs a set of chips (a
- - -> matter of minutes from direct observation.) Given the amount of
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- An intriguing and desirable concept. It would be easy enough for the
- software to keep track of the number of times each BIOS was chosen so
- that the BIOS companies could get their share of the profit. Which
- brings to my mind another concept: would it even be possible to have a
- virus scanner/cleaner/integrity checker as part of a new BIOS, available
- to the operating system as needed?
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