Re:Installing Debian Linux 2.0 (1998)
by goatinaboat on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:18PM
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Must mean something like https://www.asus.com/Motherboard-Accessories/TPM-M-R2-0/ e.g. before IME and so on were built in, you could add them as extras.
That's a TPM. Not sure what you mean by "IME", but TPMs both still exist and did not exist in 1998. They also don't have anything to do with virus scanning.
Re:Installing Debian Linux 2.0 (1998)
by goatinaboat on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:36PM
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Right, it was just a guess. I was using Linux professionally in 1998 and I have never heard of a virus scanning board. Not sure I used Debian before 2001 though.
Yes, looks like it. More information about that is at https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/magazine/1991/1991... (page 21)
There were hardware ISA boards that purported to provide boot-sector protection e.g. ThunderByte Antivirus which I found from a Google search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderByte_Antivirus
The BIOS feature is presumably referring to boot sector virus protection that old BIOSes used to have that made them read-only. But what are "virus-protection boards" ? The only search results with quotes are for variants of that page, and searching without quotes gives too many irrelevant results.