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

[Paul Schreiber]

Quick answer: the virus was/is in the *battery-backed* RAM in the date/time 
IC (used to be a seperate IC, now it's integrated in the system chipset).

I had this exact same issue ~ 10 years ago, I thought I was insane (yank the 
drive, yank all the RAM out, it STILL THERE!) Then, I removed the battery, 
shoerted the battery leads to the board and POOF! No more virus.

Most folks don't realize that there is *unused* RAM in these ICs (I think 
the original one was made by Motorola, then Dallas Semiconductor) like 512 
bytes but that's all you need!

Paul S.
been there, done that, got a tee shirt