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kimmy87

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Is it true
« on: December 20, 2005, 04:39:16 PM »
Is it true that if you have a worm and that if its on your motherboard that if i were to reformat my computer that my computer may not work after i reformat?

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Re: Is it true
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2005, 06:48:12 PM »
I doubt that a virus can easily get in/on your motherboard, the only potential for this if if the BIOS somehow was infected (it is hard enough to update your BIOS let alone infect it), difficult but theoretically possible. A google search for BIOS virus returns many, many hits - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=BIOS+virus Don't go frightening yourself unduly.

However, things like this tend to be HOAX/MYTHS and your first port of call should be http://vmyths.com if you receive something like this in the mail.

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