Question Can Advanced Threat Protection of Antiviruses Access BIOS?

[Justcicia]

Hello.

1. Can ESET Premium Security's Advanced Threat Protection find viruses in BIOS or boot partitions?


2. What is the difference between BIOS viruses and boot (UEFI-MBR-Bootkit) viruses?

Note: I'm trying to get the most accurate information about this subject. Therefore, I would be grateful if knowledgeable and expert people on these issues would also give answers.

 

[Justcicia]

Whenever you install it, it will check the UEFI is clean or will clean it before going any further.

But the problem is, if this virus is FUD, it won't find it, so I'm asking if ESET's advanced threat protection can also access and find it. @Colif

 

[Colif]

What is FUD?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Fear Uncertainty and Doubt = fud

if I were a mod I would close this thread now. It’s rather pointless.

 

[Justcicia]

What is FUD?

FUD (Full Undetected) means that all files containing malicious code particles that should be caught by antivirus software under normal circumstances are not recognized by antivirus software. @Colif

 

[Colif]

fully undetectable?

I don't know. Buy a new laptop, put ESET on it, never ever attach to internet...

you can't worry about everything, you never get anywhere worrying about what ifs.

I can't help you with hypoothetical questions... just use laptop and not worry about what could happen.

 

[Justcicia]

Fear Uncertainty and Doubt = fud

No, not in that sense.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Your posts are total nonsense . None of this makes sense. If you really wanna know and call up the manufacturers and ask them, and when they can’t figure it out, you can explain it to them because you certainly can’t explain it here

This is tin foil hat territory

 

[Justcicia]

fully undetectable?

I don't know. Buy a new laptop, put ESET on it, never ever attach to internet...

you can't worry about everything, you never get anywhere worrying about what ifs.

I can't help you with hypoothetical questions... just use laptop and not worry about what could happen.

I had already stopped worrying but my spotify account was hacked. I'm a little more worried about him @Colif

 

[Colif]

leave it mandark, you not helping - the result you found was 1st FUD I found but if you search FUD Virus you get what they showed. @Mandark https://www.neushield.com/learn/fully-undetectable-fud/

i can't do anything for spotify. I assume they guessed your password.

 

[DSzymborski]

I had already stopped worrying but my spotify account was hacked. I'm a little more worried about him @Colif

There are a billion better explanations than a BIOS virus. In the extremely rare chance you had a BIOS virus, the effects would be far worse and far different than using your Spotify account.

You don't have a BIOS virus, period.

 

[Justcicia]

There are a billion better explanations than a BIOS virus. In the extremely rare chance you had a BIOS virus, the effects would be far worse and far different than using your Spotify account.

You don't have a BIOS virus, period.

OK, but as I said before, I don't want to leave anything to chance.

 

[Justcicia]

leave it mandark, you not helping - the result you found was 1st FUD I found but if you search FUD Virus you get what they showed. @Mandark https://www.neushield.com/learn/fully-undetectable-fud/

i can't do anything for spotify. I assume they guessed your password.

And I've had incidents other than that and it bothers me that there is a possibility that I may have caught a virus and besides that I can't detect it and delete it @Colif

 

[DSzymborski]

And I've had incidents other than that and it bothers me that there is a possibility that I may have caught a virus and besides that I can't detect it and delete it @Colif

Wipe your drives completely, reinstall Windows.

Again, it's not a BIOS virus. You may have a virus. But it's not a BIOS virus.

 

[Justcicia]

Wipe your drives completely, reinstall Windows.

Again, it's not a BIOS virus. You may have a virus. But it's not a BIOS virus.

BIOS viruses can't do such things?

I'll do what you say but I'm already using an antivirus, I think this would detect it if it was

 

[DSzymborski]

BIOS viruses can't do such things?

It's far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far more likely that your antivirus missed a normal virus than it being a BIOS virus.

It's not a BIOS virus, period.

 

[Justcicia]

It's far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far more likely that your antivirus missed a normal virus than it being a BIOS virus.

It's not a BIOS virus, period.

Can you say for sure? Because what has been bothering me for months has been searching for certainty, when it is not certain it means that it can be the other way around, and it makes me feel uncomfortable.

 

[DSzymborski]

Can you say for sure? Because what has been bothering me for months has been searching for certainty, when it is not certain it means that it can be the other way around, and it makes me feel uncomfortable.

It's not a BIOS virus.

 

[Justcicia]

It's not a BIOS virus.

Look, you're not helping me by doing this.

 

[DSzymborski]

Look, you're not helping me by doing this.

Me pretending that there's the slightest chance of you having a BIOS virus would be the opposite of helping you.

If you think you have a virus or you've been hacked, do something actually productive about it. This isn't it.

 

[Justcicia]

Me pretending that there's the slightest chance of you having a BIOS virus would be the opposite of helping you.

If you think you have a virus or you've been hacked, do something actually productive about it. This isn't it.

As something productive, what can I do? I asked the question to detect, you didn't answer, I don't know how to delete it. What can I do as something productive?

 

[USAFRet]

As something productive, what can I do? I asked the question to detect, you didn't answer, I don't know how to delete it. What can I do as something productive?

In this instance, "something productive" would be a full wipe and reinstall.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

As something productive, what can I do? I asked the question to detect, you didn't answer, I don't know how to delete it. What can I do as something productive?

You have about a 1 in 10^100 chance of actually having a BIOS virus. The reality is that the universe will likely die its eventual heat death before you actually encounter one. So just wipe your drive, reinstall Windows, then, install an additional anti-virus program, although Windows Security (aka. Defender) is plenty good enough. Then stop worrying about something that isn't a problem.

 

[Colif]

Stop thinking about what ifs.

You can't be 100% safe but you can be pretty close.

I am not answering again as nothing seems to be good enough.

 

[Justcicia]

You have about a 1 in 10^100 chance of actually having a BIOS virus. The reality is that the universe will likely die its eventual heat death before you actually encounter one. So just wipe your drive, reinstall Windows, then, install an additional anti-virus program, although Windows Security (aka. Defender) is plenty good enough. Then stop worrying about something that isn't a problem.

However, is there anything that I can definitely clean my system or say that I do not have a BIOS virus or that I have it?

 

[Justcicia]

In this instance, "something productive" would be a full wipe and reinstall.

I couldn't understand?