Flash Bios To Get Rid Of Infection

Nov 20, 2009

Need a little advice. Still dealing with the nasty infection. I have done a clean install where i wiped my hard drive for about 4 hours.

I am still dealing with the infection when i place a blank disk in the drive it will type into the start menu. I am a little unsure if it would be suitable to reinstall again and flash my bios or get hackthis logs done.

If i should flash my bios how do i do this?

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