[Book]

Hello, I installed a new hard drive in my PC (and took out my old ones), in order to be able to do some tests with some viruses and trojans. Now I want to ask you, if I take the new drive back (filled with viruses) and install my old drives, will there be any chance that they could get reinfected? (Assuming no BIOS is compromised, but BTW can I check that?). I suppose there is zero chance, because any data stored in the memory is gone, and the only data that stays after shutdown is in the HDD.

I just have to ask to make sure!

[lunarlander]

If you remove the vrius drive from the PC and reinstall the previous clean hard drive, I dont think any virus can carry over. You mentioned BIOS infections. Well you can flash the bios with a current version if that worries you.

[Book]

So it is just the HDD that the viruses reside. And when removing the viral hard drive, there is no way a virus can re-infect my system.

Will flashing the BIOS delete any virus that may have benn stored there? I suppose it would be possible since flashing will require me to boot from a diskette of some sort, and the virus will be executed before that, that it could still infect my new BIOS file! :-\

[lunarlander]

write protect the floppy, then the virus can't tamper with the diskettte.

[Book]

Is there any way I can detect if the BIOS has been infected?

[BlueEyedFox]

Lmao, Viruses hardly get into the BIOS.

Check out this link

[Book]

I don't know why you think this is funny but,

I was asking for a utility that would *check* if the BIOS has been compromised.