Just wondering, would flashing the BIOS using BIOS flashback get rid of rootkits? I've heard rootkits are a bitch to detect and hard to remove. It seems like the flashback feature would solve these issues, but I could be wrong.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh I see
The OS level, not BIOS level, my bad :\
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So just booting into BIOS and wiping and then reinstalling the OS to the drive would get rid of it, if there would be one, right?
short answer:yes
long answer: as long as it not the variant that will also infect the HDD's firmware and reinfect the OS
side story
My IT teacher for a quarter (while back) had to get rid of a root kit, he took the drive out of the infected system, placed it in system with kaspersky lab, kaspersky nuked the rootkit from orbit
not sure that works in every scenario but it did there
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Yeah if it were to go to the firmware side of things, I wouldn't call it a rootkit anymore because it's not at the OS level. But that does bring up a good point. Funny story to hear though haha.