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[–] Sylvartas 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be fixed by wiping the drives and re flashing the bios ? (Or the opposite order)

[–] Breadhax0r 2 points 4 months ago

From my understanding it allows malicious code to be installed in protected memory on the CPU itself, so you can't get rid of it once it's there without a lot of extra work