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Boot Infectors

Dark Angel
40hex [14]
April 1995

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Abstract

File based viruses are executed after the operating system loads. Boot infectors, however, latch onto the parts of the drive that are accessed by the BIOS when it attempts to load the operating system itself. Therefore, there is little that can be done to intercept the boot infector once it has successfully installed itself onto a disk.

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