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Can a virus destroy the BIOS of a modern computer?
In the late 1990s, a computer virus known as CIH began infecting some computers. Its payload, when triggered, overwrote system information and destroyed the computer's BIOS, essentially bricking ...
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Can Restarting An Infected Computer Make It Worse?
I seem to remember that rebooting a potentially infected Windows PC before removing the malware may allow it to take advantage of early boot up states that may be vulnerable if the security measures ...
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