Rootkit scanning and removal

[Sky-Knight]

Out of curiosity were those Hynix the OEM drives? I'm not doubting they were the source, just never heard of them being OEM's. In the past there have been multiple exploits using HD's because they have lots of what is needed. Storage space plus direct access to the underlying hardware.

Yes, they were what HP and Dell stuffed into the two units in question. They are quite common in Dell and HP endpoints.