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On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:34:37 +0000, ~BD~ <.>
wrote:

>Quote:
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>"Researchers have demonstrated how to create rootkits that survive
>hard-disk reformatting by injecting malware into the low-level system
>instructions of a target computer.
>
>The researchers, from Core Security Technologies, used the techniques to
>inject rootkits into two computers, one running the OpenBSD operating
>system and the other Windows. Because the infection lives in the
>computer's BIOS, or basic input/output system, it persists even after
>the operating system is reinstalled or a computer's hard drive is replaced."
>
>Ref: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03...bios_rootkits/

How about flashing the BIOS or better replacing the chip
that holds it.
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Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com