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 ...

Next, I used sys.com to copy the bootable files off of the startup diskette on the hard drive's boot sector. The hard drive now boots, but only into the windows 98 dos mode.<BR><BR>How can I get the ...

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 ...

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 modifies the code the computer uses to ...

Typically, you shouldn't need to format your hard drive to get rid of viruses. As long as your anti-virus program is up-to-date, it should detect and remove any malware on your system. If, however, ...

WikiLeaks published today documentation on the CIA Angelfire project, a malware framework developed to infect Windows computers. According to a leaked CIA manual, Angelfire is made up of five ...

If there are multiple drives installed in the computer, then it can create confusion as to which drive has a Bootloader. This scenario usually happens when Master Boot Record is on the wrong drive.

Microsoft yesterday clarified the advice it gave users whose Windows PCs are infected with a new, sophisticated rootkit that buries itself on the hard drive’s boot sector. Several security researchers ...