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 ...

Bart has BBIE which creates an image of a boot sector of a CD. All 2048 bytes of it. Bart's MKBT can apparently put a boot sector onto a USB flash stick but only a floppy boot sector like 512KB or ...

Unlike MBR malware of a decade ago, the newest MBR malware is feature rich, with data stealing and remote control functionality built in. HED: Symantec: Boot Sector Malware Back In Style DEK: Malware ...

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 ...

It may be that some system files needed to boot the computer have been deleted or damaged or that the boot sector of the disc is damaged. To find out if this is the case, start the computer with a ...

It has been 26 years to the day when the computing world was introduced to its first virus: The Brain. The Brain was a boot sector virus that was written on and for floppy disks and spread by the ...

You might be surprised to find out that [Akshat Joshi’s] Pong game that fits in a 512-byte boot sector isn’t the first of its kind. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t an accomplishment to shoehorn useful ...