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>>>>>It's worth noting that some very advanced malware persists even across disk wipes, by embedding itself either in the system BIOS or in the firmware of disk devices.
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>>>>What would you do in that case, Al?
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>>>Flash the firmware for the drive (or replace it) and re-flash the BIOS.
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>>How do you re-flash the BIOS, Al?
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>Today's motherboards have lots of stuff in the BIOS. My latest has a graphical representation of itself and when you hover a mouse over things on it, it says what's plugged in that place - which processor, memory, USB device (not too smart there, mostly says "generic"), microphone etc. For flashing, it has the option to have a new BIOS on a flash drive (not sure if there's a pun in there, or whether it was intentional) and there's an option in the BIOS menu to load itself from a file on that drive (and to backup itself first). You'd be surprised how developed this has become.
Graphic should be UEFI ? I thought that was supposed to be non-flashable? (no need to get into that for some time...)
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