• shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    I feel this is super air quotey “UltraAV” lol, i might toss the hard drive if this happened to me

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Frankly, if you’ve got untrustworthy software with that level of access and a threat model dangerous enough to throw out the hard drive, you’d probably better throw out the whole computer instead. In addition to the hard drive controller, malicious code could persist in the UEFI firmware, the graphics card firmware, or even in the Intel IME/AMD PSP subsystems.