Security Alert! - Defense BMW virus, the BIOS based virus from destroying your computer

Sept. 23, 2011 - PRLog -- September 2011. Kingsoft Security (http://www.kingsoftsecurity.com/), world famous security software vendor, announces High Security Alert against BMW virus, which is a new BIOS based virus program and; remind computer users to prevent such BMW virus from making any suspicious destroyable behavior on local computers.

After being executed, the BMW virus shall infect computer BIOS chip of Motherboard and MBR (Master Boot Recorder) and; then obtain system permission to exploit Windows system files for loading malicious codes. So, once a computer got infected by BMW virus, computer users can not clean the virus through measures of reinstall Windows operating system, format hard disk and, change a new hard disk. This is one reason why BMW virus is hard to be cleaned, because of a spread measure through computer hardware.

Meanwhile, there is an outstanding feature of the BMW virus, that is rewrite computer BIOS information. Working with this feature, BMW virus can obtain Windows system permission and; prevent scan and detection behaviors from antivirus program away from its executable processes. In additional, the BWM virus rewrites the BIOS of infected computer for defending hard disk MBR from rewrite operations. So, antivirus and hard disk editor utility can not edit any information on hard disk MBR; this is another reason why such BIOS based virus is difficult to be cleaned.

Here below are codes of MBR rewrite BIOS provided by Kingsoft Security:

Kingsoft Security remind computer users:
The BMW virus would not cause you a BSOD or, destroy local computer system, but it is clearly designed for harvesting more traffic for preset suspicious websites from altering browser homepage and, downloading malicious viruses, Trojan, and other malicious program to infected computers. Further more, the BMW virus may designed for promoting some software to computer users with some prompt window.

Because of its character of hard to be cleaned and, spreading through computer hardware, here Kingsoft Security announce computer users High Security Alert and, strongly recommend computer users around the planet to be alert to BMW virus.

Kingsoft PC Doctor Team.

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