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, boot ...

Hi folks. My sister just called and said:<br><br>"When I try to start my computer, I starts to boot up and then quits"<br><br>I said: "What do you mean quits?".. Shuts right off.<br><br>She said she ...

I am pretty screwed here, I helped out a friend and got the shaft. His hard drive would not partition so I installed it in my machine and ran a low level format on it via IBM's utilities boot disk.

A virus written into the boot sectors of a floppy disk. A popular way to spread a virus when floppy disks were widely used, the boot virus relied on people forgetting to remove the last floppy they ...