Standard DRAM Memory

[v10mark]

Good evening,

My wife is concerned that if I upgrade her RAM, spyware could be introduced on the DDR chips.  I told her that RAM, unlike a USB "thumb" drive, does not maintain any data when powered down.  She thought that some sort of malicious chip that more resembled a solid state storage device, vice a RAM chip, could be installed that would allow this. 

Curious if anyone has ever heard of this.  I'm trying to reduce her uncertainty.

[P10RS]

I SUPPOSE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, but unless you are the DOD and buying upgrade modules from an unknown source in china I think this is way overboard. Ram chips loose all their data when there is no power unlike NAND chips used in USB thumb drives and camera flash cards. I suppose you could hide a nand chip under a full length heat spreader so no one could see it but standard memory modules don't have FLHS. So tell you wife it is perfectly OK to upgrade with crucial memory modules as she is infinitely  more likely to "catch" something suffering the net .