[COFF] Happy birthday, Michelangelo virus!

[Dave Horsfall]

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