Boot Sector Viruses are malicious programs that reside in your hard drive. They infect your machine by replacing your Master Boot Record (MBR) or DOS Boot Sector with their code. In some cases ...

Forecasting these trends is always tricky—no one expected the Storm Worm to explode when it did—but Panda's prediction that we may see a rise in boot sector viruses is rather surprising.

the machine read the boot sector program, which normally loads the operating system, but ran the infected program instead. Once infected, the boot virus replicated itself onto all subsequent ...

SO, I'm guessing she has a boot sector virus that is keeping it from starting.<br><br>I can't get to her house until Saturday morning. I need to know what the best way to proceed is.<br><br>Should ...

Some particularly bad viruses, including boot-sector viruses, can be so difficult to remove for a nonexpert that he may feel like the hard drive is a lost cause. But the fact is that while viruses ...

On a hunch I decided to run a tool designed to detect a specific type of malware known as a boot sector virus and was surprised to find such viruses on several computers I was working on.

Performing a factory reset on your laptop should remove the vast majority of malware, with the exception of the boot sector virus. A boot sector virus erases or modifies the code the computer uses ...

It has been 26 years to the day when the computing world was introduced to its first virus: The Brain. The Brain was a boot sector virus that was written on and for floppy disks and spread by the ...

Dubbed “Elk Cloner” and created by a 15-year old programmer named Rich Skrenta, Elk Cloner was a boot sector virus that targeted the Apple II and spread via floppy disk. Fueled by curiosity as ...