Could you imagine this scenario? You order a replacement motherboard for your PowerEdge R310, R410, R510 or T410 server, and it comes with a virus. That only happened in less than 1 per cent of these models, but it doesn’t exactly help one sleep well at night. Dell blamed the issue on “human error”. [WSJ]
DoctorOwl
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 10:19 AMI have no idea how this is possible. A virus on the motherboard? The only virus that could write itself into a BIOS (that I’m aware of) was one from VLAD in the late 90s, and it was never confirmed as actually working, let alone in the wild.
Unless there’s some other storage area in the motherboard that we’re not aware of…
James Carson
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 11:52 AMpotentially some flash memory built into the motherboard for system recovery purposes?
boc
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 2:02 PMWhy do people still buy/use Dells? Every Dell machine I’ve come across has always been buggered in one way or another.