Timeline for Can a BIOS or UEFI infection transfer to other storage drives without the OS presence?
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 6:13 | comment | added | forest | +1 BIOS calls are just as simple to use as syscalls for messing with disk contents. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 16:23 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | On the original IBM PC, there was a BASIC interpreter built into the BIOS. You could perfectly use the PC without any OS at all, or rather with the BIOS as an OS and the BASIC interpreter as a shell. In a scenario like you describe, the malware would take the place of the BASIC interpreter in the original PC. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 13:21 | vote | accept | pgmank | ||
| Sep 23, 2015 at 13:15 | history | answered | Tom Leek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |