From: "Stephen Howe" <sjhoweATdialDOTpipexDOTcom>

| 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.
|
| Cheers
|
| Stephen Howe
|

It's true.

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Dave
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