If you have a BIOS infection you have really messed up.
However these Partition malware's are quite easy.
You download it, usually it is an EXE file, you run it. Nothing
happens computer will probably lock up, you reboot to start a fresh
and viola, the system starts to make its own partition and infect
whatever. (It usually will pop up, doing the windows chkdsk routine
checking the integrity of your disk, which is of course a cover for
it writing itself a partition.)
You must boot to a outside source to gain control of the HD back as
it will never show itself unless you do this.
What some people do for fun huh?
Stewart
At 07:43 AM 12/24/2009, you wrote:
I'm guessing if you've got a BIOS virus, you can still get enough
control to boot off a CD, but if the virus is *already* in control,
couldn't it just take over the BIOS update process and re-infect?
My P-III has a setting in the BIOS to turn on BIOS virus protection.
Essentially a warning that something is trying to write to the BIOS
(or was that the CMOS?).
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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