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On Jun 11, 2008, at 9:05 PM, dfeustel@mindspring.com wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:51:16PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

>> The next time I reboot the one server I've got with an
>> SVM capable processor I'm going to disconnect the power (to make  
>> sure that
>> I'm getting a real reboot instead of a spoofed one) and then on  
>> reboot I
>> will disable SVM in the BIOS.
>
> How do you know that the bios has not been reflashed by a virus,  
> trojan,
> or rootkit?

Arrrrghh!!