kpatz
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join:2003-06-13
Manchester, NH
| reply to antdude
Re: Report: boot sector viruses and rootkits poised for comeback
I can see MBR rootkits taking hold, as a launch point for the malware once installed. But MBR viruses, not too likely anymore, since people don't tote floppies around anymore.
I suppose a MBR/boot virus could spread via USB drives, but that assumes the BIOS is set/capable to boot from such a drive before the hard drive.
It should be easy enough to defeat, between BIOS MBR protection, and kernel-level MBR protection in the OS.
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