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1Computer viruses
By Ralph Roberts
“Computer viruses” Metadata:
- Title: Computer viruses
- Author: Ralph Roberts
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: Median: 170
- Publisher: Compute! Books
- Publish Date: 1988
- Publish Location: Greensboro, NC
“Computer viruses” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Computer viruses - virus - viruses - disk - program - computer - programs - system - software - files - file - boot sector - public domain - computer virus - hard disk - ibm pcs - operating system - computer viruses - virus protection - system files - safe computing
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL2050894M
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 88028556
- All ISBNs: 0874551781 - 9780874551785
Access and General Info:
- First Year Published: 1988
- Is Full Text Available: No
- Is The Book Public: No
- Access Status: No_ebook
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Boot sector
A boot sector is the sector of a persistent data storage device (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, optical disc, etc.) which contains machine code to be loaded
Master boot record
A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first block of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives
Booting
storage devices ("boot device sequence") until it finds one that is bootable. Once the BIOS has found a bootable device it loads the boot sector to linear address
Design of the FAT file system
FATs × sectors per FAT), the root directory (n/a for FAT32), and hidden sectors including the boot sector: this would result in unused sectors at the
Volume boot record
A volume boot record (VBR) (also known as a volume boot sector, a partition boot record or a partition boot sector) is a type of boot sector introduced
Computer virus
control" in 1984. The first IBM PC compatible virus in the "wild" was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created in 1986 and was released in 1987 by Amjad
Bootloader
also spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer and booting an operating system
NTLDR
appropriate boot sector in a file. NTLDR requires, at the minimum, the following two files to be on the system volume: ntldr, the main boot loader itself
NTFS
in the Master Boot Record (MBR) is limited to 2 TiB with a hard drive with 512-byte physical sectors, although for a 4 KiB physical sector the MBR partition
UEFI
for a boot sector as part of the backward BIOS compatibility. Unlike the legacy PC BIOS, UEFI does not rely on boot sectors, defining instead a boot manager