On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:22:50 -0400, Shadow  wrote:

>  No, neither formatting or partitioning will eliminate the
> firmware-malware.  From what I understand, it's a rootkit, like a
> separate OS, but in the hardware ROM, not in the storage part of the
> drive, but then I'm not a malware expert. I just capture the nasty
> things.
>  Ask one of the resident experts if a firmware hack will affect
> Linux, or if the ones in the wild are Windows-only.

None of the ones I've read about affect linux systems. For example,
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/

Note the firmware creates nls_933w.dll, and presumably does something
to have windows systems autoload the dll on boot.

That won't work with linux systems. It doesn't mean that a firmware
hack couldn't be written to target linux systems, just that no known
in the wild hacks have done so.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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