Keith Daniels wrote: > Note I am not Anti-Russian, in fact I am addicted to news on RT.com > (according to my friends anyway). > Same here, but do you read Russian? Because also other nations use the same alphabet > I installed altlinux-p7-sysv-tde-20160312-x86_64.iso trinity version > thinking about switching over to it: > > I played with it for a couple of days and decided it would be more work > than I wanted to do, to customize it to what I wanted, which was too bad > since I liked it. > > I then deleted it and installed the live Q4OS version. I liked it too but > did not want to be forced to use LVM. While testing Q4OS I noticed that > the large blue box with two Russian words in it thatI first saw after > install ALT_Linux, was still appearing on the screen--right after the > power came on. > which are the words? > I thought maybe that during the live install it was put on the boot > section or the disk, or possibly some where else on the hard drive that > didn't get erased, so I used dd to zero out those sections as well as the > entire > drive, and created a new partition with gparted. Then the first time I > restarted the computer it was gone. But when I pushed the reset button, it > was there again and after that all power on events caused it to reappear. > > About this time I started getting nervous, and wanted to know where was > this image stored on my computer and what activated it at startup. > > So. I pulled the hard drive and started the computer up with no usb or > hard > drive attached and still got the logo. This meant that the image was not > on the hard drive. So I thought it might be in the volatile ram on the > BIOS chip. I used the jumpers to clear the BIOS chip and just for good > measure removed the chip and let it sit for 30 minutes. Nothing changed > when I put it back in and started up the computer, the image still > appeared. > > The only thing I can think of that would permit this scenario to work, > would be if they burned the image into the non-volatile part of the BIOS > chip. > > I don't think they are hacking my computer, I think they are just showing > off. But the idea of someone burning code onto my BIOS chip, or hiding it > somewhere I can't find it--doesn't make me happy. They could have put > anything, including a back door access to my computer in it. > > Has anyone else had or noticed this problem when installing ALT_Linux > versions? And does anyone have any other ideas as to what I could test or > other things to try that might remove it? > why not try debian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
