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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You and I tried the same word inrow 3! 
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They're always the ones that find the dead bodies.
Just sayin'
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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You'd think it would be more dog walkers.
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Nah, they find dismembered bodies. Different skill set.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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But that's a subset, yes?
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Exactly, with better planning and an earlier start, they could have had a civilised walk.
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I have always protected my systems by keeping up to date system images and data backups, but I often wondered what would happen if some clever hacker developed a virus that corrupts the computer's BIOS. To the best of my knowledge, the BIOS is saved in a hardware chip on the computer's main board. Since the BIOS loads the operating system, if the BIOS is corrupted there's not much you can do about such a virus.
Yes, I have a utility from Dell that will reflash the BIOS chip, but since the BIOS virus controls the operating system, will it allow Windows to reflash the BIOS chip? I doubt it!
The main mechanism used by this malware is to corrupt the manufacturer's logo that first shows on startup, before Windows is loaded. I find this scary, but I have one point in my favor: I only bought Dell devices for my family. Here is a quote from the article below:
Quote: Many devices sold by Dell aren't directly exploitable because the image files are protected by Intel Boot Guard, making it impossible to be replaced, even during a physical attack.
You can read more here:
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack | Ars Technica[^]
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Cp-Coder wrote: if the BIOS is corrupted there's not much you can do about such a virus.
Some motherboards, such as some Gigabytes, comes with a backup BIOS which can't be flashed. So, if the machine is mission critical then it's worth considering a board that has one. You can literally just boot with the backup BIOS and reflash the main one.
Cp-Coder wrote: Yes, I have a utility from Dell that will reflash the BIOS chip, but since the BIOS virus controls the operating system, will it allow Windows to reflash the BIOS chip? I doubt it!
Windows has zero say-so on whether or not you can flash the BIOS. At best it can restart the computer. Any flashing software isn't using the Windows kernel, API, etc.
To your point though, a virus could in theory prevent the reflashing (not sure though). That being said, these days a BIOS is stored on EEPROMs, so nothing can prevent you from physically taking the chip out of the computer and rewriting a good BIOS on it before putting the chip back in the computer. Sure you'd have to soldier/desolder, but it would work.
Cp-Coder wrote: You can read more here:
The logo fail thing has been around for a while, just FYI. There may be a new instance of this that just surfaced, but it's nothing new.
Secure Boot will help mitigate some issues with this. It's not perfect since a virus could bypass that too, but it'll at least make it a bit harder for the virus.
All scare tactics aside, this is one of those cases where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure though. If a machine is mission critical it should be behind a DMZ/firewall/something with locked down restrictions.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 24hrs ago.
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jmaida wrote: There is this going on
Holy crap. Why does this not surprise me though...
Jeremy Falcon
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I've stubbornly use MBR on all my machines for concern the real reason for UEFI is so Microsoft can control from where your pc loads it's boot code such as Azure someday and viola Subscription Windows. I don't use 11 at all and only 10 on my MBR DAW because the audio software I use "requires" it. So UEFI is exploited, bummer drag.
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Ron Anders wrote: I've stubbornly use MBR on all my machines for concern the real reason for UEFI is so Microsoft can control from where your pc loads it's boot code
C'mon, even the hardcore Linux guys have come around on that one.
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... I found this promising: Alien: Romulus | Official Trailer - YouTube[^] - very much looks like it's "back to the roots" rather than the "oh gawd not again" of Prometheus and Covenant.
Of course, it could be another case of "trailer-with-all-the-good-bits" and nothing left for the actual movie, but we can hope.
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Show the good bits then fill the rest with yawns and I gotta go pee.
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Man, these Romulans look nothing like what I remember from Star Trek.
Agreed on the trailer - one can only hope all the best bits aren't already in it and the movie brings nothing else.
I really should re-watch the first two again.
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One of the problems with teaching myself stuff is I end up with my own lexicon and orthography for whatever is I'm dealing with, and then I run into walls trying to come up with solutions where I need input or help from other people.
Having taught myself C++ and generic programming I'm facing one of those issues right now. I'm not sure it can be expressed in C++, and if so, it's through some magic like SFINAE (which i don't understand either)
I simply don't have the language necessary to ask the question. 
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I’ve learned programming all by myself too.
Programming is associated with math. Everyone had the mindset “Math and programming go hand in hand”. I didn’t understand why people thought this way until very recently when I stumbled upon the problem of writing a serious steering algorithm for my strategy game. To get the things I want working I’m facing the challenge of learning the math lessons I skipped over when I was in high school. You don’t need math to learn a programming language that’s true. However you won’t get too far if you don’t know math in a complex program.
modified 7hrs 5mins ago.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I simply don't have the language necessary to ask the question.
"Fire bad." Maybe you have to explain it at that level?  Remember, they say if you can't explain something so a 5-year old understands, you don't understand it nearly as well as you think you do. I had a (childless) co-worker adapt that saying to explaining something to his dog. Between us, I don't think the damned dog ever wrote a single line of code in its entire life. 
I don't necessarily keep up with all the latest and greatest coding fads. A few years ago I remember reading something on design patterns and thinking to myself, I've already been doing that for years. That's new?
Turns out, I've been using various design patterns for decades, I just never assigned them any fancy name.
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