Test of BIOS Spyware

[Ralf-P. Weinmann]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:44:20PM -0700, John Young wrote:
> We received the note below about spyware allegedly created for
> a Maryland agency with code which needs to be tested.
> We'd appreciate feedback on the note and the code. Beware
> of a sting. The code:
> 
>   http://cryptome.org/ExpCode.ASM

Note to author of code: Look into the "Scan User Flash Area" option if
you ever have to pull this trick on a motherboard with an Intel BIOS.
See [1] for instructions on how one might make use of it. 

Additional exercise: Enable "Scan User Flash Area" regardless of user setting.

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] How to modify your PR440FXs BIOS images for netbooting 
    http://www.beowulf.org/software/PR440FXNetboot.html

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Ralf-P. Weinmann <rpw at uni.de>