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Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-26

ARLINGTON, Virginia -- Insider attacks and industrial espionage could become more stealthy by hiding malicious code in the core system functions available in a motherboard's flash memory, researchers said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference.

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Re: Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS 2006-07-28
ABG
I Second the aforementioned information. I have this virus Rootkit too.

Here is a thought, however: Perhaps you and I really are being watched? Perhaps someone local to us was able to access our internet access. Then the government via this powerful bios related rootkit is watching our every ...

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