Researchers Report Spike In Boot Time Malware 132
wiredmikey writes "In their most recent intelligence report, Symantec researchers pointed out a massive increase in the amount of boot time malware striking users, noting there have already been as many new boot time malware threats detected in the first seven months of 2011 as there were in the previous three years. Also known as MBR (master boot record) threats, the malware infect an area of the hard disk that makes them one of the first things to be read and executed when a computer is turned on. This enables the threats to effectively dodge many security defenses."
Re:BIOS password (Score:4, Informative)
You don't need to: just verify the MBR at least every boot (with a utility running late, in Windows),
No good. You have to verify the MBR before the virus has loaded, or it can just fake it.