[71027] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Worst cast worm damage estimates: Research
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Sat Jun 5 23:29:06 2004
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 20:28:30 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
SD> That's less than $400 per defective motherboard.
SD> Your paper estimates it would cost more than double
SD> to replace a scrambled BIOS.
> Edward B. Dreger
> Definitely sounds high, especially considering the
> cheap end with socketed a DIPP BIOS: Boot from
> "loaner" BIOS chip. Remove loaner BIOS. Insert chip
> containing scrambled BIOS. Flash.
Indeed. I found out that in most cases the loaner BIOS does not even
have to come from the same brand PC and in many cases it will allow to
boot DOS to flash the original BIOS back even if it was for another
chipset.
As far as re-installing Windows, it just takes a few minutes when you
have something like Symantec Ghost or Altiris client.
Michel.
