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A competent repair shop will do what they've done since the late 90s and pull the HDD from the computer, hook it up to a second computer and scan it. Not much i
by empressplay 11y ago
A competent repair shop will do what they've done since the late 90s and pull the HDD from the computer, hook it up to a second computer and scan it. Not much is "undetectable" when you do that.
- Piskvorrr 11y agoYup. This is one of the oldest classes of malware (second only to the Great Worm), back when they were called "viruses" and travelled in floppy disks' MBRs. Early 1990s nostalgia strikes back ;)
- peterwwillis 11y agoExcept for firmware viruses. And that's assuming it's not a regular polymorphic virus, which is harder for a simple virus scanner to detect correctly. http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/ http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/