jdd wrote:
James Knott wrote:

A boot sector virus is executed every time the computer is booted. Any OS can be vulnerable to a boot sector virus during booting


my old thunderbyte anti-vir software replaced the boot sector by it's own and kept an md5sum of it, preventing such attack. I hope moderns systems have something similar...


Many systems will prevent writing to the MBR, if so configured.


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