If all goes according to plan, I should be having a RL face-to-face
meeting tomorrow with my boater friend who works for IBM.

I shall ask again about malware infection of a BIOS chip.

Please advise of any question(s) you feel I should ask - to put my mind
at rest about an infected machine continuing to be infected even when a
hard disk has been replaced with a new one.

I'll tell him that you and Dustin Cook tell me that this impossible
outside of a laboratory! ;-)

BD