Types of Computer Viruses "Boot Sector Virus" and Danger and threat to your computer

Types of Computer Viruses "Boot Sector Virus" and Danger threat to your computer - boot sector virus is a virus that uses the boot sector as a place to hide itself. Boot sector is an area or specific sectors on the disk (or floppy disk / CD / DVD) that contains various information about the disk itself.

Boot sector virus transmission method based on the fact that operating systems often access the boot sector to get a certain ifnormasi. when running the file, the system reads the boot sector to determine the location of the file. when boot sector virus infected the boot sector, the system read (and also run) the virus code so the virus becomes active and ready to spread. however, boot sector viruses are no longer popular because of reduced use of floppy disks which is the most effective media as a place to live virus.

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