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Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
pcworld.com ^
| Feb 17, 2015 5:40 AM
| Jeremy Kirk
Posted on 02/17/2015 7:03:37 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:03:37 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
That’s it. I’m going to get an old MFM hard drive and use SpinRite to perform a low level format. Let’s see . . . 330 MB times two per card time 4 slots, almost 2.5 GB.
Maybe I can run off of USB jump drives.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:06:40 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: BenLurkin
I call BS. That would require a lot of user interaction.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:08:00 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: BenLurkin
Why wouldn’t RE-reprogramming the firmware, followed by scrub and reinstall work?
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:09:09 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:11:20 AM PST
by
Springfield Reformer
(Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
To: BenLurkin
Back to this?
DEBUG >
g=c800:5 >
I wonder how long it would take on a 1TB drive?
I forgot to enter the bad sectors.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:15:00 AM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
To: BenLurkin
Well over a decade ago, a younger relative advised his family members to remove all hard disks from our old PC’s when we got rid of them.
Then, he told us to drill holes into the hard disks and soak them in a mix of salt water and bleach for a few days. Then throw them away.
At that time he warned us, the so called erase programs didn’t
Do the job.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:15:46 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & media?)
To: BenLurkin
It’s beginning to look like I’m going to have to have two computers. One that’s not hooked up online for all my super critical stuff and the other online computer.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:19:57 AM PST
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: Grampa Dave
I’m glad that I am not the only one who recommends bleach on platters.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:21:11 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: circlecity
"have two computers" This is what I recommend to friends. Somewhere along the line we decided that EVERYTHING had to be on-line. It's a choice between convenience and security and we have chosen convenience.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:22:37 AM PST
by
Da Bilge Troll
(Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
To: Dr. Sivana
Linux live discs and flash media?
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:22:45 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: rktman
.357 mag JHP?I use an arc welder. Put it on AC, turn the amps all the way up, ground the case and drop a stick of 6011 through it lengthwise.
To: circlecity
Not to worry when the FCC takes over nothing will work.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:23:55 AM PST
by
boomop1
To: tacticalogic
LOL! That’ll work too. Nice goin’ ‘Sparky’.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:26:17 AM PST
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: wally_bert
All flash media has firmware. You can overwrite the media until you’re blue, but it won’t affect the firmware.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:28:24 AM PST
by
TexasGunLover
("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
To: rktman
One of our RAID drives went bad on the company server last fall and the IT guy let me enforce Rule .308 on it.
He liked the results, indicated it should be the preferred disposal method. :-)
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:42:36 AM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Axenolith
Safety goggles firmly in place. Wouldn’t want anyone to lose and eye due to flying “bits”.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:44:58 AM PST
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: BenLurkin
The US Govt is behind all this BS. They are destroying the export markets for the US drive manufacturers. All in the name of “national security”. These machinations by the NSA are destroying this country.
I can hear it now: “We had to wreck the country in order to save it.”
Whoever made this decision should be hung.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:46:31 AM PST
by
bkopto
(Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
To: BenLurkin
If the firmware is re-writable, you should be able to re-flash it.
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posted on
02/17/2015 7:49:55 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
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