Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 23:02:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' Message-ID: <199902090702.XAA00489@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Feb 1999 23:32:50 EST." <v04011705b2e569fb8761@[128.113.24.47]>
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> For what it's worth, I purposely went with a "dangerously dedicated" > system as my own way to avoid MBR-related viruses. I have one machine > which is only going to run FreeBSD, and I assumed it would be better > if the disk was entirely under the control of freebsd. ... > I am not much of an expert on Intel-ish hardware systems. Was I > correct in thinking that there are some viruses which write over > MBR blocks? Does a DD setup do much of anything to protect me > from any such viruses? It won't matter what's in your MBR; the virus will overwrite it anyway. It's not going to run too well under FreeBSD though. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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