"Stephen Howe" <sjhoweATdialDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote in message
news:ILOdncMkdKU3zUTanZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@pipex.net...
> Hi
>
> Any comments on article
> http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/inte...917&source=rss
>
> Extract:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
> "For example we were last week analysing a series of banking Trojans
> which infect the user's PC when they surf a web page by using
> exploits. And what it does is it writes a modified boot sector to
> your hard disc.
> "Now first of all, writing to the boot sector on a hard drive from
> within Windows is supposed to be absolutely impossible, but that's
> what it does. And it replaces the very first sector on your hard
> drive with a modified version.
> So next time you reboot the computer the very first thing you run -
> before Windows - is the malware. It loads itself into the memory and
> then continues to boot the machine normally.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> That seems bad news if true.
> But there is no detail on what browser, version of Windows or
> whether MS has patches or anything.


Oooh, that an infected host is not secure, gee, yeah, like that's some
ground-breaking news, for sure, uh huh. The author just wake up from
a 20-year coma?