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Mysterious "unkillable" computer virus could be new kind of cyberweapon - or is it? A researcher and his team have battled the infection for three years - and believe it spreads using sound, so it can infect machines nearby. We look into rumors of virus so deadly it can spread even when machines are offline. Somewhere in a Russian computer lab lurks a computer virus so deadly, so indestructible that it can spread even when machines are disconnected from Wi-Fi - or power cables. A researcher and his team have battled the infection for three years - and seen it infect Macs and PCs, and return even once machines have been wiped. Dragos Ruiu calls it “BadBIOS”, and claims that it is “the tip of the warhead” - a new type of cyberweapon, which he believes spreads by sound. It can infect PCs or Macs with equal ease. British tech site The Register are a little more sceptical, describing it as The Loch Ness Monster of computer viruses. “This "virus"...