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To: RJL who wrote (3165)	4/24/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110648

RE: The motherboard: From CERT: Many motherboards have a "jumper" that will enable or disable the ability to write to the BIOS. To prevent the CIH virus or any other program from writing to your computer BIOS, we recommend that you set the motherboard jumpers so that the BIOS can not be modified. Some motherboards vendors may ship with the jumper set in the writable/programmable mode for the BIOS. This is a known virus and anti-virus vendors are able to detect the CIH virus. To detect and remove current viruses, you must update your scanning tools and anti-virus software with the latest virus signatures or definitions. To properly clean the CIH virus we recommend booting an infected computer from a clean floppy diskette (one that is not infected) and then run anti-virus software.