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Skriven 2006-08-02 08:42:08 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MARTIN ATKINS
Ärende: Hijacked
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-> -=> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL <=-


->  -> It just caught you on a bad day is all.

->  WC> That's a fair assesment if understated.
->  WC> Dog died a few weeks back as well.

-> Sorry to hear about the dog. It hurts when you lose an old friend.

Thanks.
Pretty darned devastating.
I lost an ideal realised.

-> What makes you think you have a BIOS problem? On the knoppix
-> disk i have you can call a program called "memtest". You run it at 
-> the knoppix boot prompt and it does a thorough test of the ram. 

I'm aware and have used this utility, rather recently in fact.
www.memtest86.com IIRC
How would this hassist in verifying a virus?

To answer your question about my suspician of virus.
A few days before that insidious malware installed itself on my computer
I noted a "DMI event".
Having no idea what this was I noted but generally ignored it... until
I ran into my other tribulation.

Now in my quest to things clean up here I googled up some research that
leads me to suspect a virus.
What I know is three things.
A week or so ago the BIOS noted a "DMI event has been logged".
Google reasearch on relavent keywords led me to suspect a BIOS virus.
Lastly I've small DOS partitions on both physical drives and on both
such partitions the DOS label command elicits an illegal character 
in the volume label.
In both cases the volume label returned has an illegal lower case
character as the second character in the label and when prompted 
executing label it asked if I want to delete the existing label.
Answering in the affirmative fails to relabel the drive however.

Now I am not certain however in light of recent events this has me 
concerned enough to emplooy safe computing practice that preclude 
hard drive reads and writes among other precautions.

Feel free to offer up advice should you feel like doing so as this too
is a new learning experience.

-> It takes a while to do its thing but let it go on to start doing
-> a second pass before you shut it down. You can get it off the
-> web but it needs compiling or it comes as an iso so i hope you 
-> have it on your CD. 

I had the image file.
I can retrieve another copy if I need to do so and put it on floppy
without hard drive activity.
My question being, how would doing so assist in confirming a virus?      

Having recently run memtest86 it's reassuring to know my memory ( the
computer's RAM that is), is sound.

Progress here but not entirely out of the woods yet.
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