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  1. March 28th, 2009, 04:34 PM #3
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    Certainly an issue, but not a new one. I've never come across one of these potentially nasty varmints. Anyone here have any hands on experience?

    I suspect the reason why BIOS malware isn't widely distributed (yet?) is because you cant use a single virus/trojan to affect a wide range of machines. You have to write chipset specific code. Some interrupts as well as functions/features to update BIOS differ from one mainboard vendor to other.

    Windoze is a great honeypot. Let's hope it continues to attract the most attention.
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