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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unless you're in the antivirus business, it's probably not worth celebrating. But 20 years ago this month, the first PC virus was discovered. Dubbed Brain.A, the virus got onto computers via floppy ...

Some viruses and malware can infect the boot sector of your flash drive. This can occur right when you plug the flash drive into an infected system. Plugging the infected flash drive in to an office ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

Rich Skrenta now has the dubious distinction of being recognized as the first person to write a self-replicating boot-sector virus. It'd be easy to criticise Mr Skrenta for his choice, but keep in ...

Computer viruses first emerged in the 1980s. Since then, they have posed problems for computer users worldwide. Unfortunately, most are here to stay. Computer viruses are now so common that even IT ...