From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 8 23:06:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16491 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles225.castles.com [208.214.165.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16482 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:06:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00489; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:02:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902090702.XAA00489@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garance A Drosihn cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Feb 1999 23:32:50 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 23:02:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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