BIOS Upgrade utility Winphlash flashes WITHOUT notice and command

Hello,
After installing Vista I was about to upgrade my BIOS. So I downloaded the BIOS from the official site (http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_bios.jsp) filled in my notebook details (Satellite A110-225, PSAB0E) and downloaded the bios version for VISTA.
I unzipped the zip and double clicked on the setup.exe. The latter file was supposed to create a folder in windows temp and possible startup Winphlash. But is should stop there. Instead it went on and also
FLASHED MY BIOS WITHOUT ME HITTING THE FLASH BUTTON !!!!!
And this is not all......
Because I didn't had a change to change the source file the program did this using the BIOS.ROM file included in the setup of the program. Not using the "TW20540a.rom" file which was the new rom to be used.
Now my system is dead. My BIOS is corrupted.
Please help me fix the BIOS and Toshiba people please remove the upgrade utility from the site !!

I was able to repair my BIOS using the BIOS Recovery Mode and a Repair Disk (http://web.telia.com/~u43311424/crisis-recovery-disk/)
I tried several BIOS versions
- 2.0 for non-VISTA currenlty on the official Toshiba site
- 5.4 for VISTA also on the Toshiba site
- 1.3
All three are asking for a BIOS password which i never set. In version 5.4 my keyboard does not work.

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