From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 14:52:00 +1100 (EST) Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Michelangelo virus! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, Rudi Blom wrote: > Seems someone had forgotten to disable in the BIOS the booting from > floppy. Guess who forgot to remove the OEM CD from a Thinkpad, and rebooted it? I can't remember the details, but I was repairing the odd bad block; the box had FreeBSD on it, and I'd just downloaded an update over the net, rebooted, and walked off for a cup of coffee whilst it did its thing... The damned thing assumed that silence meant consent, and started to format the drive; fortunately I'd just installed the base FreeBSD on it, without any further work. These days I leave default boot from floppy/CD/etc disabled unless I need it. -- Dave