From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: goemon@anime.net (Dan Hollis)
Cc: alan@bagpuss.swansea.linux.org.uk (Alan Cox),
tanner@ffii.org (Thomas Tanner),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: harddisk suddenly locked?!
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:09:54 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15SPj8-0001W2-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108021356440.25815-100000@anime.net> from "Dan Hollis" at Aug 02, 2001 01:57:10 PM
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Or someone broke into the box and did it. In fact given this feature
> > is actually enabled on ibm disks Im amazed the windows viruses havent
> > all started doing it
>
> Destroying the bios is a bit more straightforward and certainly more
> universal.
And a lot less damaging. Its "Oh dear put the disk in aother box and
disinfect" not "oh god, all our web server data is lost"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-02 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-31 11:00 Thomas Tanner
2001-07-29 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-02 20:57 ` Dan Hollis
2001-08-02 21:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-08-01 0:05 ` Guest section DW
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