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		devindotcom on Nov 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated M... EFI partition, BIOS, other nonvolatile system memory? If it gets root level access it can hide anywhere there are a few KB. Even less than that will do if you're just putting a hook to instruct the computer to re-download the virus if it is detected that it has been removed.

lingben on Nov 24, 2013 [–]

wow... so there's no way to clean it? the only option is to junk the hardware?

cpach on Nov 24, 2013 | [–]

Well, even if you cleaned some of the storage areas devindotcom mentions… How would you know you didn't miss any other area?

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