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.

Security firm Panda Labs has released (PDF) its malware report for the first quarter 2008. The report covers a number of topics and makes predictions about the types of attacks we may see in the ...

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Boot-sector viruses can be removed by either clearing the boot sector or using a removal tool and rebuilding the boot sector. Hypothetical Firmware Damage. According to Computerworld, ...

When turned back on, 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 ...

If your computer shipped with Windows 8, it's most likely protected from boot sector viruses. Getty. Whether you can remove a virus from your laptop largely depends on what kind of reset you perform.

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Still the Brain ignited a storm of boot sector viruses- also known as Master Boot Record (MBR) that continued to plague the industry for years. Much more destructive MBR virus types were to follow.

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.