In order to turn bigger profits from their armies of compromised computers, hackers this year will use a new tactic in targeting master boot records with viruses that plant rootkits on computers’ hard ...

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 ...

Is the Partition Table considered part of the MBR?<P>As far as I understand, the Master Boot Code is followed by the PT, and they both reside in the first sector of the disk, but to be exact on terms, ...