Re: Can a Virus Infect the BIOS?

In article <dF7kg.6123$lp.4711@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
misred2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

Can you boot a boot floppy or a bootable CD? If you can't, it ain't
your hard drive.

I'm not even sure if my PC has a virus now.
It started out with sudden rebooting.
My PC is unable to boot up at all into Windows now.
I have Avast anti virus installed and auto updates enabled and
installed.
Also did a full anti-virus scan.

There was a big yellow question mark in the Device Mngr list
pertaining to the USB bus so I disabled it.
I also disabled it in the BIOS.

Since then, when booting up, I get to the safe mode menu and select
safe mode. The screen just hangs and nothing happens.

I am going to put a new hard drive in but was wondering.....
If the PC was infected with a virus, could my new hard drive get
infected from the BIOS?

Thank you.

Nancy







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