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Question regarding service partition on IBM's notebooks

post #1 of 6
4/24/07 at 2:45pm
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Hi,

Just wondering, lets say a virus penetrates a system.. How secure is the service partition on that system?

Can a virus cause any damage to this partition?


Thanks!
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post #2 of 6
5/2/07 at 12:29am
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Originally Posted by nahumba
Hi,

Just wondering, lets say a virus penetrates a system.. How secure is the service partition on that system?

Can a virus cause any damage to this partition?


Thanks!
From my understanding, I don't think so. I have a Z61m for work, and I ran into a corrupt file from a co-worker. I hit the ThinkVantage Button, and everything was as good as new. There wasn't any hint of corruption afterwards...
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post #3 of 6
5/2/07 at 3:29pm
Unless you contract a MBR/Boot sector virus (very rare these days that partition will remain safe. Is it a standard partition or a HPA? (Host Protected Area)
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post #4 of 6
5/2/07 at 3:45pm
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Originally Posted by SolApathy
Unless you contract a MBR/Boot sector virus (very rare these days that partition will remain safe. Is it a standard partition or a HPA? (Host Protected Area)
Standard partition. Here is a screenshot from the disk management:
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post #5 of 6
5/2/07 at 3:51pm
Well like I said before MBR/bootsector virus are very rare these days. Are you running AV/firewall?
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post #6 of 6
5/2/07 at 4:09pm
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Originally Posted by SolApathy
Well like I said before MBR/bootsector virus are very rare these days. Are you running AV/firewall?
Yes. It's a company laptop, so we are protected by Symantec, and we have a Watchgurad Firebox so nothing usually gets through from the outside, unless somebody brings in a corrupt file from home, which has happened on ocasion...
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