Worst case worm damage estimates: Research

Sun Jun 6 03:31:53 UTC 2004

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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