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They did have a firmware-based malware dropper. The "only" thing it did was re-infect clean Windows installations, so installing Linux would still mean you'd be
by tgsovlerkhgsel 8y ago
They did have a firmware-based malware dropper. The "only" thing it did was re-infect clean Windows installations, so installing Linux would still mean you'd be fine as the second stage wouldn't be dropped, but of course that's not a technical limitation - they could have built it to also infect Linux, but didn't.
- pritambaral 8y agoThey couldn't have. The dropper was passive, abusing a Windows mechanism designed for installing vendor software, in which Windows looks for such software and executes it. Linux does not go diving in UEFI looking for executables to run.