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A boot sector virus is a computer virus infecting the boot sector on hard and floppy disks. When the computer becomes infected and successfully boots, the virus can then infect media that is written to by the infected computer, replicating itself and spreading through the sharing of disks and software applications.
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A virus infects the Master Boot Record of a hard disk drive?
Boot virus
What is a boot-sector virus?
multipartite virus
Virus can hide in either of two boot areas of a hard drive?
boot sector virus
A multipartite virus is a combination of a boot sector virus and a file virus and can hide in either?
A multipartite virus is a combination of a boot sector virus and a file virus. It can hide in either type of program.
What is a boot virus and how to remove it?
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What are the characterisics of a virus?
(1) file virus (2) boot sector virus
What is system sector boot virus?
A boot sector virus is a computer virus that puts itself in the boot sector of a computer. The boot sector is the partition on the disk drive that contains all of the programs and files necessary for the computer to start up. This ensures that the virus will be executed once the computer is turned on.
How to fix a virus that corrupts boot up structure?
Fixing a boot up structure that is corrupted due to a virus can be difficult to deal with depending on the extent of the damage done. Reformatting the hard will can fix the boot up structure. If the virus destroys the Master Boot Record then the hard drive is useless paper weight.
What is the name of the virus that hides in the boot sector?
A boot sector virus. Boot sector viruses place themselves in the MBR (master boot record). This is a partition on the hard disk that contains all of the programs and files necessary for the computer to boot up when it is powered on. The virus places itself here and gains control of the computer before the operating system can gain control.
What is the difference between boot sector virus and program virus?
boot sector : virus runs on start up of the computer. program: virus runs when you run a specific program.
Which virus uses both boot-sector and executable functions?
A virus that uses both boot-sector and executable functions is a multipartite virus. This type of virus attacks a variety of platforms, and continually re-infects each platform until it is removed.
What type os virus?
bombs,email viruses, trojans, worms,boot sector virus.....
