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From: PHYS169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Aitchison, U of Canty; Physics)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Boot Sector/Partition Table Protection (PC)
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Date: 7 Feb 91 08:30:00 GMT
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padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (Padgett Peterson) writes:
>>>... what would be the possibility of 'delibrately' infecting ones boot-secto
r
with a piece of code ...
..
> allow such intrusion to be detected prior to the load of the OS and can block

> any such infection thereafter...

If anybody's interested, there is such a program avaliable, i.e. stops
hard disk boot viruses early in the start-up sequence. If anyone is
interested, I can e-mail further details. It's a companion product to
an automatic diskette boot sector scanner.

Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.