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+-   Boot sector viruses & rootkits poised for come-> on Thursday April 03 2008, @01:51AM Ant

Submitted by Ant on Thursday April 03 2008, @01:51AM
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Ant writes "Ars Technica says Panda Labs' first quarter 2008 malware report (1.1 MB PDF) raises a new concern, though it comes from a surprising direction. According to the company, boot sector viruses loaded with rootkits are poised to make a comeback. This honestly sounds a bit odd, considering how long it has been since a boot virus has topped the malware charts, but it's at least theoretically possible. Such viruses have a simple method of operation. The virus copies itself into the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a hard drive, and rewrites the actual MBR data in a different section of the drive... The report also covers a number of other topics and makes predictions about the types of attacks computer users may see in the future. Forecasting these trends is always tricky... Seen on Blue's News."
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