[The High Roller]

A hacker demonstrates that code can be hidden inside a new computer to put it forever under remote control, even after upgrades to the hard drive or operating system.

The attack can work on PCs with any kind of processor, but many of the standard features of PC motherboards originated with Intel. Suzy Greenberg, a spokeswoman for that company, said in an e-mail that Brossard's paper was "largely theoretical," since it did not specify how an attacker would insert Rakshasa onto a system, and did not take into account that many new BIOS chips have cryptographically verified code that would prevent it from working.

Here's the link if you guys want to read the article:
A computer infection that can never be cured

Pretty interesting to say the least.

[Nohbdy]

Interesting, but something computer experts have been worrying about for years.

It IS curable, just not easily. http://awdbedit.sourceforge.net/

[Dismas]

There have been a lot of awesome things going around since the security conferences started going around.
This one was mentioned at Black Hat if I'm not mistaken. Another really famous one is Defcon.

[The High Roller]

I hope that this virus would have some way around it.
No one likes being infected!

[antonino]

Smart!.. But bad-ass smartness like this.. should be put into good use. Nobody wants an incurable infection..

[The High Roller]

It's all for the pleasure. You know you like to see people rage!

[Hardz]

Hmm.. me wants to do this.

[antonino]

To create the virus?. Don't tell me, you're the one infected? LOL! Peace man!

[The Protagonist]

Sealing my computer with glue now.....

[Frankie]

Wow it is unreal what can happen today with computers. Scary enough that they can be infected over time but now you can buy them already infected? Crazy.