Is BIOS spyware a thing?

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Nick.D

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I got one of my old computers back, and the previous owner has a long history of putting spyware on just about anything that can have spyware, and in any way.

A little background on this person--He knows quite a bit about computers. He's worked with them for most of his life, he's worked on computers for the military, and for large companies. He has a masters degree in networking, and worst of all, had access to this computer for more than a year.

I went as far as replacing the hard drive, but I still don't feel certain that my computer is free of spyware. Is there some sort of spyware that could infect BIOS, or any way for it to re-infect the new hard drive?...
 
Not unless the guy is capable of injecting code into the bios which is highly doubtful.
 
UEFI can be infected with some pretty nasty NSA-level rootkits. But we're talking very high end, very nasty stuff. Doubt you'd see it on a personal computer.
 
i agree with you, however he doesn't know who he is dealing with. i mean is it likely yes..
Jiniix said:
UEFI can be infected with some pretty nasty NSA-level rootkits. But we're talking very high end, very nasty stuff. Doubt you'd see it on a personal computer.
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Yeah it is possible, look up "badBIOS" and you will see one that is pretty nasty. Scary thing about those is they are not OS specific so Windows, Linux and Mac OS are targets.
 
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