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Excuse me sir: there's a rootkit in your master boot record

Security mavens have uncovered a new class of attacks that attach malware to the bowels of a hard drive, making it extremely hard to detect and even harder to remove. The rootkit modifies a PC's master boot record (MBR), which is the first sector of a storage device and is used to help a PC locate an operating system to boot …

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Matthew Brown

You know...

If it wasn't so damned dangerous, I'd feel misty eyed at the nostalgia of this stuff.

Simpler times too, when most virus writers were after your pride not your credit card.

Jenkins
Flame

"Mebroot cannot be removed while a computer is running"

...is what it says in the BBC article on this issue.

Unless they know something we don't, I guess they're doing their usual dumbing down of technology, but assuming that readers are too ignorant to know the difference between a computer and an OS is a bit much, surely...and even if many readers +are+ lacking that knowledge, surely the Beeb's there to inform, not confuse?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7183008.stm

NB the rest of the article's not too bad, it's just that one line that annoyed me.

I sent an email to them, perhaps others did too...We'll see if they change it...

Ralph Beales
Happy

Fantastic news..........

.......... no more computers in the home fewer in the office. Does this mean we all get our lives back? Spend longer in the pub? Don't go home from work and carry on working? Make the planet 'greener' by using less electricity? [Yeah right ;)]

Well, after reading all the comments and being transported back 25 years, I'll go and dig the Sinclair QL out of the attic. No namby-pamby 48k Spectrums, a full-on 128k with micro-drives

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