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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 2007-07-09
Burnt-out-User
I have spent the last 5 weeks trying all the same things you described. When I originally gave up and replaced the hard drives I thought it would be the end. Some how it now seems to start making its changes faster. Once I have reinstalled Windows XP Pro from the original disk, it only takes about 1...

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