BIOS level malware

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 2 comments

mon_raralio

+1 1 Vote

This issue has been solved. See solution.

The following links are articles about a research on a BIOS virus that remains present even after an OS reinstall.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2962
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/researchers-unve...

Their next step is to develop a rootkit to deliver the payload.

discussion Filed Under:

Comments RSS Feed

Comments

Nov

2009

0 Votes 0

Prachand

Trusted Advisor

Thanks for sharing the

Thanks for sharing the information . but it would have been great if you would have done this under the blog section

Prachand Kumar MCSE-2003 Symantec Technical Specialist (SCTS)

Nov

2009

1 Vote +1

Vikram Kumar-SAV to SEP

Symantec Employee

Accredited

BIOS attacks can be prevented by using the jumpers on many motherboards to block writing to the chips that store the system's instructions. In addition, some hardware security technologies, such as the Trusted Computing platform, could be used to check the integrity of the BIOS, preventing changes.

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/929

VMWARE-- SEP 12.1 vs McAfee vs Trend Micro

SOLUTION

BIOS level malware

Comments

Thanks for sharing the

BIOS attacks can be prevented

Would you like to reply?

Links

Technical Support

Symantec.com

Store

Community Stats