![]() ![]() If you are lucky the board has some easy-to-use flash utility built in and all you have to do is copy the BIOS file from the vendors page to a floppy disk or USB flash drive, reboot your system, press a certain key to access the flash utility and follow the instructions.If that isn't the case you will have to create a DOS boot disk with the BIOS flash utility suggested by the vendor and the BIOS file. Then get the make and model of your motherboard, visit the vendors support page and read about flashing the bios. First of all you should boot your system, enter the BIOS and do enable the flash/write protection so it cannot be infected from within Windows again. It requires the BIOS to actually be write-able from within Windows which isn't always the case.Getting rid of it isn't rocket science, but does require some work. ![]() To actually flash the BIOS from within Windows it needs to first bypass your Windows security like being run as an administrator which UAC should inform you of and your anti-virus (Windows Defender which is built into Win 8.1 or third-party).3. Honestly, I doubt the virus/trojan is coming from your BIOS.1. ![]()
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