Is antivirus software indispensable after all?

Dell has warned that a small number of its server motherboards may be harboring malicious software. The issue came to light after a customer wrote on a Dell support forum about being contacted by a service technician for a rather unusual procedure: Dell wanted to cleanse a malware from the server motherboard that was recently replaced.

Essentially, malware has been found on the embedded server management firmware of some of its server motherboards. While Dell insisted that the number of effected server motherboards is small, the company was forced to publicly acknowledge the issue, and that it is working to rectify the problem. Read more...

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