Safer Boots: Feds Urge Malware-Resistant BIOS InformationWeek Previous examples of BIOS-infecting malware are relatively rare, but include the Windows-targeting CIH or Chernobyl virus, which appeared in 1998 and could flash a BIOS and corrupt it, after erasing the data on a PC. [ Leave hacker payback to the ... New BIOS guidelines aim to keep malware out of computer's nether regions |
