windows worm hard drive destroyer

[mtechno]

I wondered if anyone had some experiance of a worm like this thread describes:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2884952/equation-cyberspies-use-unrivaled-nsastyle-techniques-to-hit-iran-russia.html

My work collegue was unfortunate enough to down load it in windows security updates took down his initial hard drive to blue screen of death
has managed to do the same with 2 further hard drives. It is not possible to format because microsost states there is data on drive. Obviously nothing microsoft will allow you to do anything with this. I was wondering if dos or linux stystems or perhaps other would overcome this problem however for it to transfer to 2 further drives has this worm firmware installer hid itself in bios system?
Has anyone previously overcome a bad boy like this?

[cunny]

I've not come across anything infected, but seems to be an attack at firmware level. If this is the case they should release the commands to get the pcb to accept new firmware, possibly the same way xbox 360 dvd drives got into vendor mode to read/write firmware via ata commands.
If you have 2 identical drives maybe a pcb swap but I've not come across this malware

[mtechno]

Collegue gave me incorrect information, it turned out not to be a worm but failed hard drive & processor apparently he had 3 hard drives wired as one instead of one hd with two slaves, so when fault occured with processor it took down all 3 hard drives

[majsterx]

@mtechno impossible. They must have some over-volting from PSU like a storm..
slave/master no matter, if working before then no problem. +5V going down..

[cunny]

@mtechno impossible. They must have some over-volting from PSU like a storm..
slave/master no matter, if working before then no problem. +5V going down..

Sounds like the drives were on a raid so if 1 fails then all data is lost