Good morning Andre The short answer would be simply Yes! The longer answer. There are a few different infections that can indeed affect the Bios in different ways. If you go to any of the anti virus research sites and input Bios you will come up with a few entries including the older CIH, Mypics, AntiCMOS and even the recent Magistr worm try here: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html http://vil.nai.com/vil/advsearch.asp http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/vinfo/virusencyclo/default2.asp ?m=q&virus=bios&alt=bios (this url Will wrap) I do hope that helps Christy White *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 11/29/01 at 11:16 PM andre chiasson wrote: >Hi, > >is there such a thing as a virus that can attack the bios? Thank you for >your help! > >Andre Chiasson >Quebec City > PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml