On Oct 23, 8:57*pm, Emmett BADASS Gulley <emmettgulle...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sep 15, 5:55*pm, "FromTheRafters" <erratic.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > "~BD~" <~...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message

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> >news:j4s9f0$83h$1@dont-email.me...

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> > > Researchers have discovered one of the first pieces of malware ever used in
> > > the wild that modifies the software on the motherboard of infected computers
> > > to ensure the infection can't be easily eradicated.

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> > > Known as Trojan.Mebromi, the rootkit reflashes the BIOS of computers it
> > > attacks to add malicious instructions that are executed early in a computer's
> > > boot-up sequence. The instructions, in turn, alter a computer's MBR, or master
> > > boot record, another system component that gets executed prior to theloading
> > > of the operating system of an infected machine. By corrupting the processes
> > > that run immediately after a PC starts, the malware stands a better chance of
> > > surviving attempts by antivirus programs to remove it.

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> > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09...it_discovered/

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> > > --
> > > Dave - exactly what *I've* suspected for years! ;-)

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> > For years, you've been wrong. D

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> > Now that it is ITW so they say, the naysayers will be silenced. But
> > you might want to consider that BIOS thing to be more like a
> > payload that *might* sink the roots deeper than was otherwise
> > possible. It is likely to owe more of its wilding ability to its being
> > a user-mode, kernel mode, *and* an MBR mode rootkit - plus a
> > virus - than to its being a BIOS modder. Just wait until some
> > wormable exploit is written to spread it or it gets adopted by evil
> > botnets.

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> > TPM anyone?

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> ROTFLMFAO!!!! This is just another version of the famous CMOS virus
> but only affects bios.




eMutt you don't even know what STFU means let alone CMOS or bios.

Please stop trying to be a computer expert you Keiser drop-out. Oh
wait you have to GO THERE FIRST to become a drop-out.
Wow. That is some failure you have. a drop-out drop-out. Holy ****,
can you get any stupider?