Why boot viruses?

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by quorumangelorum, Sep 20, 2008.

  1. quorumangelorum

    quorumangelorum Private E-2

    Hi, I just have two questions:

    1. If I've got a 160-gig slave drive, set up for storage only, but with a DDO to deal with the large disk size -- is that susceptible to boot sector virus? (without actually being bootable.) My system drive is a physically separate 60-gig drive.

    and, 2. I never get other viruses, trojans, BHOs, etc., but I seem to be more vulnerable to boot virus. What, typically, are the mistakes that would put me in that position? I use Bit Defender and a firewall. I have not been able to get the DDO software to make a backup of the MBR or DDO on either drive.

    Thanks a lot for your advice.
     
    quorumangelorum, Sep 20, 2008
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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    According to your previous message here http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=168475 this drive was a bootable drive and hence it was a bootable drive at one point.

    Are you 100% sure? You were infected when you posted here http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=164579.

    Not all malware will cause visible effects.

    Unknown. But if you are really getting frequent cases of real boot sector virii then something you are doing is a problem.

    As stated last time, this is a topic for a different forum. Since you were not able to get any help in the Hardware Forum, you could try the Software Forum.
     
    chaslang, Sep 22, 2008
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