[GRLUG] Free DELL with several VIRUS'

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Seems like most people tend to indicate that flashing the bios is a good 
way to rid yourself of a bios virus.

If you are a real ubergeek and have a lot of spare machines laying 
around you could set one up as a snort box and also run wireshark or 
something on it. Then use it as a bridge to the network connection for 
the suspect machine.

Casey DuBois wrote:
> The install went well and I wiped the drive.
> The next step is to plug into my network...
> Is there a way for me to verify that NO BIOS virus exists before plugging into my network?
> Or would a BIOS flash take care of that?
>
> Casey
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>> I received a Free DELL with Several VIRUS' and am planning on loading
>> Ubuntu. If I just do the install will it get rid of everything on the
>> drive (like the virus and M/S), or is there something I should do before
>> the install?
>>     
>
> When doing the install it'll ask you to partition it, and it'll use fdisk.
> If you install on the entire disk, and don't dual boot, it'll completely
> wipe all the MS stuff off there.
>
> It's *possible* you could have a BIOS virus, but that's another issue
> altogether.
>
> Topher
> Manager of Internet Services
> Cornerstone University Radio
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