Scary new malware attacks your BIOS...

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This could be a game changer in the computer world. Most people have no idea where they would even start in order to change their BIOS, they just don't even touch it. This is a quote right out of my motherboard manual; a motherboard from ASUS which is widely considered an amazing motherboard, and is about a year old.

If there is no problem using the current version of BIOS, DO NOT manually update the BIOS. Inappropriate BIOS updating may result in the system’s failure to boot. Carefully follow the instructions of this chapter to update your BIOS ONLY if ABSOLUTELY necessary.

ASUS is flat out telling you to NOT update your BIOS because of the possibility of bricking your system. How can you help protect yourself? By keeping your BIOS regularly updated; something which motherboard companies have been telling us NOT to do. This has the potential to be huge...
Here is a blurb from the article:

I've been wondering about UEFI BIOSes myself for a while now, sure they look and work great, but an uEFI BIOS is an OS on its own, and as such rather vulnerable. At the security conference CanSecWest, security researchers Corey Kallenberg and Xeno Kovah revealed that even an unskilled person could use an implant called LightEater to infect a vulnerable system in mere moments.

An unpatched BIOS can easily be infected with malware or a virus. Motherboards from companies like Gigabyte, Acer, MSI, HP and Asus are at risk, especially if you are not updating your BIOS on a regular basis towards the latest revision (and let's be frank here, who does ?).

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/lig...fi-bioses.html

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[Axeman33]

Any virus is a pain in the ass but anytime it hits your BIOS, it's never a good thing.

Haven't these virus' that attack your BIOS been out there before?