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Old 08-16-2006, 07:54 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally posted by jcortes
interesting mabey i didnt read it right mabey it altered their settings, it was a long time ago .
Oh its definately possible to wipe or atleast corrupt the CMOS from within windows, consider for example those BIOs flashes with can be run from windows.
I guess all the virus would need to do is use some of that flashing code to write junk to the bios.
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