You work for a small city IT department and are working in t

You work for a small city IT department and are working in the Advanced BIOS settings of a customer’s computer. This computer has recently been installed and configured as part of a rollout project for a new office. You notice that the boot sequence is set to look for Eth first. What does this mean?

A. The computer was hacked and set to boot from the Internet.

B. The computer was compromised by malware and the boot sequence has been set to a null value.

C. The computer was installed and configured over the network.

D. The computer was installed and configured from a flash drive.

Solution

C. Eth typically means Ethernet, and when you see this as a boot option in the BIOS, it means the computer was set to boot from an operating system image located on a shared directory on the local LAN, which is a typical method of installing a large number of computers in a short space of time. In this case, the computer should have been reset to look at the hard drive first in the boot sequence after the installation process.