[71028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worst case worm damage estimates: Research
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Sat Jun 5 23:35:43 2004
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 22:31:53 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <DD7FE473A8C3C245ADA2A2FE1709D90B0DB1A9@server2003.arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Michel Py wrote:
> 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.
Just one question--who is paying to get the production work done while
all this is going on?
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