[sdiy] OT: Can your computer catcha computer virus from anothercomputer's RAM?

[Samppa Tolvanen]

Totally OT and ROLF ;)

On 7/1/08, Veronica Merryfield <veronica.merryfield at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Just so everyone is clear, or that I got it completely wrong, Anthony was
> talking about the DDR ram not the CMOS or RTC devices. There are vriuses
> that hide the CMOS memory areas as Paul describes but the DDR sticks are not
> battery backed and are therefore safe. If in any doubt at all, use a
> reputable professional.
>

Non-reputable professional says: So called CMOS memory is used for
those few bytes BIOS needs for its parameters. I challange You to
write a virii that can boot system and still be resident in that
memory ;)

Can anyone tell DRAM from SRAM?

For more paranoia search for "Cold Boot Attack" - scary shit, isn't it? ;)

Only 99.9% of virus infections are caused by using an OS coming from
some company with headquarters in Richmond or User Error. Pick one.

Samppa

p.s. Has anyone taken any process time measurements how much Your
AntiVirus software uses Your precious CPU time? LOL some more.