BIOS-level viruses and rootkits

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/bios-virus-rootkit-security-backdoor,7400.html ^ | 03/27/09 | Marcus Yam

[antiRepublicrat]

Microsoft is still hobbled by backwards compatibility. Mostly because of that the UAC consists of too many hacks to make it really good. Just the fact that you can turn it off isn’t good.

It isn’t that Microsoft couldn’t fix it, but that to fix it would anger a lot of people and a lot of developers, something Microsoft has never been willing to do. Microsoft is also at fault for fostering a culture of running as admin throughout most of Windows history in the first place. It’s hard to pull away from that, as opposed to UNIX where most people are used to running as mere users and all but system-level applications are architected to run with user privileges.

It may have been a tough pill to swallow, but Apple did the right thing in dumping OS 9.

[antiRepublicrat]

Writing Rush's program onto wife's iPod.

gtkpod: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_gtkpod_ipod

Ubuntu: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9266

I knew those two were out there, just needed to search them up.

[beef]

I suppose macs are nice, but unfortunately much of the software I need to use does not run on a mac. The reason for this is the same as the reason that linux and BSD don’t seem to have many virus problems, which is also the same as why Al Qaeda does not attack Liechtenstein. They are just not a big enough target to bother with.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They are just not a big enough target to bother with.

That is a common argument...but there are also structural differences...see post #40 & #41.

[LexBaird]

...which is also the same as why Al Qaeda does not attack Liechtenstein. They are just not a big enough target to bother with.

More like Switzerland. Smaller, and far better protected. Easier to pick the low hanging fruit.

[Swordmaker]

I suppose macs are nice, but unfortunately much of the software I need to use does not run on a mac. The reason for this is the same as the reason that linux and BSD don’t seem to have many virus problems, which is also the same as why Al Qaeda does not attack Liechtenstein. They are just not a big enough target to bother with.

If your software runs on Windows or on Linux, it will also run on a Mac.

So, what software do you need to use?

By the way, the number of OS X Macs in the wild is now approaching 45,000,000—99% of which are running bare naked of any anti-virus apps—tell, me beef, when is the number of sitting duck Macs going to get large enough for the virus writers to "bother with?"

[beef]

I suppose I can run ISE and all the other IDEs I have to work with in a VM. I also suppose I could do my surfing in a VM and just delete it if gets infected. That would save me a couple of thousand on the mac.

You seem very confident that Macs cannot be infected by any kind of malware. Would you advocate that mac users not bother with antivirus software? With no threat to protect against, why is mac antivirus software even available?

[WLR]

Now be nice..

In this multicultural nation English may be a second language and noting the problem is independent of the OS.. may be difficult to translate into Frengie..

I mean you really need to work on your tolerance.

LOL

W

[kansascitycomputers]

I believe the United States Government is creating these BIOS viruses to destroy older equipment harder to exploit!

I have the same problem. My mouse freezes. It is a bios virus that affects the motherboard. I have first come into contact with this back about this time a year ago. I thought it was something else. My mouse cursor would freeze to one side or the other of the desktop and I would be unable to use the mouse. I thought it was memory sticks, virusues, corrupted operating systems, etc.. I did all the steps needed in every circumstance.

Sometimes the keyboard, but always the mouse would be unusuable. The cursor could go up and down as I could see it moving with my input up or down, but that was it. The problem is it is on three machines and they are all different machines. They are older machines being around 2001 to 2005. I have been observing the phenomenon for a year now and nothing in retail stores works, my training doesn’t work. But my training has finally narrowed it down.

I known since 2004 that the government has had me under surveillance. I first discovered some type of device on my telephone line back at the end of 2004. I don’t know why the government would watch me. Maybe comments made about George Bush in a chat room...maybe the fact I was in the navy and top secret clearance when I was a kid. I am not really sure. Maybe high I.Q.?

I had somebody type something to me one time when I was using a public computer at a college in late 2008 or early 2009. I forget whether I was sending a resume or sending one off, but this window opened and the person said;”if you weren’t lying this wouldn’t happen”...or something along those lines. It kinda blew me away. These people were watching me use a public computer. Probably knew it was me when I logged into my yahoo mail and then instituted their computer surveillance towards that computer and that subnet.

They knew where I was and the subnet I was coming off of. Be patient, I will tell you of my theory about BIOS viruses. I believe the government has created them to damage older equipment that can’t exploited because pre-2005 equipment doesn’t have the loopholes designed into it be exploited.

I know that these things aren’t my imagination. I have advanced electronics training both in the navy and civilian. I have years of training in information technology and computer science.

I have had numerous agencies of the US government hack into my computer. I discovered this by using various software to traceout suspicious IP addresses that I kept getting attacked from. I traced out the IPs and they would come back to DOD, pentagon, Dept. Mil., Dept. of The Navy,..Army, Mercedes Benz,etc....even a command post at Riyhad Saudi Arabia.

Hell...I am nobody. I never did anything or hurt anybody. I also have a Bible ministry site I created and have had the web pages completely deleted, webhosting accounts locked out several times. Anybody that knows anything about the Bible knows that the Bible doesn’t pull punches. The Bible isn’t politically correct.

I would presume to say that the United States Government is probably behind a lot of this damage that I have heard people describe on this forum and others. Lot of these people on these forums have high level expertise and the government wants to hinder them and their productivity.

If the govt. is watching me, you can bet they are watching many others also. I am unable to make a living and my Christian minsitry has been affected. I have no alternative no but to post on blogs and talk to as many people and contact as many people as I can.

I believe from my past experiences which I have only touched on, are caused by the government. What are the chances that 3 different machines are going to go down with the same exact behavior? I have had machines sitting in closets that I used last year with no problem. I know they had nothing wrong with them...PERIOD!

The virus code for the BIOS virus/CODE flips back and forth from parts of the hard drive to memory on the motherboard and bios. If you take an infected hard drive(even one that has been wiped clean several times) and install it into another computer,you are going to infect the bios on that computer as well. I have also discovered Linux based operating systems installed on usused sectors of various hard drives. The unused sectors would be encrypted as to prevent them from being wiped. So I can be on my computer on the web/internet connection while “satan/gov’t” would be on his operating system on my computer doing what he does. I have wondered why I was never able to regain the full 120 gig capacity, 60 gig capacity, 250 Gig capacity or whater capacity of the hard drive as when I first got them.

I have lost three computers because of the BIOS viruses. I have noticed that this BIOS virus doesn’t infect a newer model machine built in 2009. I know that motherboards built after 2005, have some type of backdoor that is purposely designed by the manufacturer that allows the government to get into your computer and you can’t stop it. Microsoft also designs their software with backdoors that most people don’t know about.

Also the backdoors in Microsoft Windows works hand and hand with the backdoor in the motherboards built after 2005. The BIOS virus knocked out three pre-2005 motherboards 2005. I believe this BIOS virus was designed intentionally for this. The older equipment was harder to access than the new machine I have now.The government doesn’t want people using the older machines. They are purposely damaging them so you have to buy a new one that are easier to exploit and gain access over them to spy on Americans.

I can tell you all kinds of horror stories about cell phones and PDAs I have had as well. I never thought the United States would get like this. But the USA is getting communistic. I don’t care if they read this. I haven’t got one call off my website and it is a top rated site in Kansas City. I don’t give a fuck if they kill me. If I can’t make a living then I am dead already. Might as well be dead.

“Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.”...the United States will most likely get destroyed in the next very, very soon war with Russia and Iran. They are against the God of the Bible and against God’s people, Israel.

[kansascitycomputers]

The BIOS virus is independent of the operating system as when I switched over to Ubuntu, the machines were still affected, thus ruling out a hard drive virus.
steve
steve@kansascitycomputers.com