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Re: cih virus




> I have got the cih virus on one of my computers. The cih virus is quite
> nasty first it overwrites the first mb of every hd you have installed and
> then it flashes your bios with invalid code. So it's quite impossible to
> boot an os. But I got this idea. Would it be possible to boot with an
> other bios that contains the etherboot code from a network card? Or does
> the etherboot code use the bios on the motherboard when it boots?
> 
> The motherboard in the computer I am talking about is of the type of
> motherboards where you can't remove the bios.

Etherboot is a BIOS extension and needs the main BIOS start up first.
Looks like the only solution is to take out the main BIOS with a soldering
iron.

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