• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Offline virus scanners are standard. That’s always how you detect if you have been infected. Bios viruses are detected and removed by standard anti-virus software.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      BIOS and UEFI bootkits require special vendor tools and vendor signed firmware binaries to overwrite the SPI memory. Standard anti-virus software can not remove them, once they have been installed.