Re: harddisk suddenly locked?!

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 16:09:54 EST


> 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"
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