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To: Omedalus
This family of viruses infects the BIOS. It’s active and infectious regardless of what OS is installed on the machine. Why do you believe your Mac is immune to this?

Possibly due to the means of flashing the bios? The attack program to install the bios virus may be windows specific...

18 posted on 12/30/2009 10:29:59 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: ThunderSleeps
Possibly due to the means of flashing the bios? The attack program to install the bios virus may be windows specific...

Or, if there is no BIOS to flash...

21 posted on 12/30/2009 10:42:09 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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