On Saturday 30 June 2001 17:07, you wrote:
> "virus in your flash" has been possible for a long time. But it is hardly
> worth the effort. If you're into a machine and able to much with flash,
> then you will get far more mileage by infecting every file you can than by
> blasting flash. The main goal of most of this stuff is to propagate.
> Outlook is a far more useful way to ensure propagation than FLASH.
My point was a trojan in the BIOS is very possible because there have already
been BIOS viri. I'm not sure what a trojan could do from that standpoint as
it couldn't collect much information and a site as secure as that wouldn't
have internet access I assume.
>
> Nevertheless I'm convinced we'll see ACPI BIOS viruses pretty soon now.
> Then people will suddenly realize there's a problem.
>
> Not to even mention what's doable with EFI ...
>
> The security architecture of the machines we use .... well, doesn't exist.
>
> ron
