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boot sector

The first sector on a hard disk and in every disk partition. In a partitioned storage device such as a hard disk, the boot sector contains the "partition table." In a non-partitioned device such as a USB drive, the boot sector contains the "volume boot record" (VBR). See master boot record, partition table, MBR disk, GPT and boot.

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Purpose: This algorithm takes as input the boot sector of disk drive and returns file system information such as file system type and volume serial number.

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In general, both executable and boot sector viruses are not very threatening any more.

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At bootstrap the computer runs the code located in the boot sector, which has been replaced by virus-code.

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file, or copying information to a boot sector. Try Antivirus Online (www.av.ibm.com to find out more.

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Until 1995, most viruses were either program or boot sector viruses.

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* By booting up (starting) your computer from an infected diskette, which is called a boot sector virus.