Much has been made of this last bit, but malware attacks against the Basic Input Output System are anything but new.

The BIOS, or basic input output system, is the fundamental code that boots the system, connects the hard drive and manages the peripheral devices.

The name originated from the Basic Input Output System used in the CP/M operating system in 1975.

The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) includes boot firmware and power management firmware.

The Basic Input Output System, or BIOS, provided the lowest level functions required by the operating system.

They check your system's BIOS (basic input output system), the operating system, major applications and in many cases even your data files, right down to the spreadsheet cells and database fields.

But if you are ready for some last-minute checkups, here's what you need to know: * Older computers may have a BIOS, or basic input output system, that is unable to handle years after 1999.

Another part of the computer, the BIOS (the basic input output system that controls the most fundamental actions of the computer), has among its many duties the task of assigning a century to the two-digit year number.

On IBM Personal Computers and compatibles, the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) and DOS system calls provide a way to write text on the screen, and the ANSI.