"Stephen Howe" wrote in message
news:w7CdnTOtM-WlPEfanZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@pipex.net...
>> 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?
>
> Nope. But a process being permitted to rewrite the boot sector for
> Windows was a new one for me.
> I had hoped that the newer versions Windows (XP, Vista) would not
> permit this.


Boot sector viruses have been around for over a decade. Guess that
author has been in a coma for that long.