On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT), klem kedidelhopper
put finger to keyboard and composed:

My son suggested a possible "bios virus". I had
no idea that such a thing was possible.

Here is one well-known example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)

"CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller, is a Microsoft Windows
computer virus written by Chen Ing Hau of Taiwan. It is one of the
most damaging viruses, overwriting critical information on infected
system drives, and more importantly, in some cases corrupting the
system BIOS."

- Franc Zabkar
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